anchor: If there was enough discrimination at Texaco to merit a $176 million settlement with the employees, then there was enough discrimination to merit a commensurate payment to Texaco stockholders--not from corporate coffers, but from the personal assets of the corporate executives who bilked their investors by failing to hire the best bargains in the labor market.
positive: Texaco settled a discrimination suit amongst its employees for $176 million.
negative: Texaco won the lawsuit against its employees and stockholders.