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Movie and entertainment industry giant Technicolor Inc. yesterday settled a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by eighteen former and current female employees---many of them minimum wage factory workers who speak little or no English. Although the corporation has not admitted liability, it agreed to pay $875,000 to the women, to provide anti-discrimination and harassment training to managers and employees, and to be monitored by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for the next three years. The EEOC has described harassment and discrimination at the company as pervasive, involving supervisors in various divisions and levels from videotape assembly lines to executive offices, and consisting of everything from verbal abuse and explicit cartoons to groping and forced sexual acts.