Administration narrows policy on job bias remedies
The Reagan administration will drop mandatory hiring goals in job bias cases and rely on first three policy elements. Assistant Attorney General Reynolds proposes recruiting goals aligned to community demographics without fixed hiring targets, arguing for practical remedies to past discrimination. The plan preserves court-ordered nondiscrimination and back pay remedies while ending long term numeric hiring goals.
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Watt seeks warmer image amid Alaska trip controversy
Interior Secretary James Watt returns to Washington after a benevolent Alaska visit aimed at mollifying critics and appeasing conservationists. He limited Glacier Bay boat traffic to protect humpback whales and touted a $2.1 million visitor facilities plan at Denali while clashing with a liberal House Democrat and facing environmentalist charges of collusion with his old firm.
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Fed expands lending to thrifts under new program
The Federal Reserve Board permitted savings and loan institutions short on cash to seek loans under a new program. Rates apply to medium-term loans, expanding Fed relief beyond its usual remit of member banks and very short terms.
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