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Technical Difficulties Following a seven-year hiatus, Juanita Griffin will resume work as an electrician at the Washington Convention Center. On Tuesday, a federal jury ruled that Griffin had been sexually discriminated against as a convention center employee, overruling a 1997 federal District Court decision to the contrary (“Bad Wiring,” 8/21/98). She will receive her old job back, plus $19,000 for emotional suffering and a soon-to-be determined amount for lost wages. Griffin’s excited about her return, with one misgiving: Cleo Doyle, who engineered her dismissal and once publicly mused that women should remain “at home, barefoot, and pregnant,” will once again supervise her. “I don’t trust him,” says Griffin. Washington Convention Center Authority officials declined to comment on the case.