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...lives because of the drop in inflation and interest rates, and they are all too aware of high unemployment and rising bankruptcies. But they differ widely on how much to blame Reagan and his party, if at all. Brenda Pace, who lost her $300-a-week job as a supervisor at Hudson's department store in Detroit, delivers a two-word verdict on Reaganomics: "It stinks...
...sunny afternoon last May, just two days before Mother's Day, a parcel arrived at the two-story brick home of Howard and Joan Kipp, in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn. The package was addressed to Joan, 54, a supervisor of guidance counselors in New York City's public schools. Standing in her kitchen, Mrs. Kipp tore off the brown wrapping paper and found the Quick and Delicious Gourmet Cookbook. She opened the cover. Suddenly there was a flash, and two .22-cal. bullets tore into her chest. Kipp came running into the room and discovered...
Sexual harassment has become in the past few years a routine basis for lawsuits brought by women against male bosses. But a male employee suing a female supervisor on the same grounds is like the proverbial man biting the proverbial dog. David Huebschen, 33, an employee of the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services, is apparently the first male to win such a suit. Last week a federal jury in Madison said that he is due $196,500 in damages, probably the largest amount ever awarded an individual in a sexual harassment case. The sum is to be paid...
...jury of five women and one man believed Huebschen's contention that Rader demoted him from his job as a disability-insurance supervisor because he refused her sexual advances. Stumbras, an administrator of the state agency, was held liable for not remedying Huebschen's harassment complaints. The verdict will probably be appealed...
Rader, who like Huebschen is married, denied any affair. Rather, she claimed, it was he who pestered her-unsuccessfully-for dates. Rader said she demoted Huebschen in 1979 because he was an inept supervisor. Yet just three months earlier she had praised his work in a written critique, and a month before that she had recommended him for a pay raise...