I am very confident that, together with my co-plaintiff, Ernestine Grant (another black woman over the age of 60, and a 16-year Times employee), and our attorneys at Wigdor LLP, our efforts will prompt change – not just at the Times, but at other organizations tempted to give in to the simplistic stereotype of who belongs in a vigorous, contemporary organization.
As the board investigated the Columbia accident, it expected to find a vigorous safety organization, process and culture at NASA bearing little resemblance to what the Rogers Commission identified as the ineffective "silent safety" system in which budget cuts resulted in a lack of resources, personnel, independence and authority.
In journalism schools in the US, graduates are encouraged to come to India because of mushrooming media organizations, vigorous newspaper circulations and a relatively free press.
The state's news organizations, once vigorous watchdogs, have been decimated by a deep industry downturn.
Other provisions that the committee agreed to add to the bill, dealing with asylum and immigration detention, had been the subject of vigorous lobbying by gay organizations.
"The Guardian's reporting, and that by other news organizations, prompted vigorous debate in the U.S. and around the world as well as numerous legal challenges, Congressional hearings and legislation calling for reform of NSA programs".
Large numbers of Kikuyu left the church, and Kenya's leading anticolonial political organization mounted a vigorous attack on the church's policies.
But the question remained: if Dean stood no chance of beating Bush, where was the evidence that any other contender — none of whom had created an organization remotely as vigorous as his — could do better?
After the earthquake and in the months before the Olympic Games in Beijing, which begin Aug. 8, China seemed to be moving into a new era of openness, with vigorous reporting from domestic news organizations.
Nongovernmental organizations began a vigorous campaign to prevent the reregistration of glyphosate.
