Word: americans
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...Shulman of 1,000 women across the country found that 77% think the women's movement has made life better. Only 8% think it has made things worse. Ninety-four percent said the movement has helped women become more independent; 82% said it was still improving the lives of American women...
...only now, when 68% of women with children under 18 are in the work force (in contrast to 28% of women with children in 1960), that maternity leave and child care -- always issues for the working poor -- have become important for the majority of American women. Only today does the women's movement seem remiss in having failed to give greater emphasis to these matters. "The things I fought for are now considered quaint," complains Erica Jong, a best-selling feminist novelist. "We've won the right to be exhausted, to work a 30-hour day. Younger women...
...latest applications of antinoise, a surprising new technology that is changing the way people block unwanted sounds -- from the whine of electrical transformers to the rumble of internal- combustion engines -- while leaving human voices, alarm bells and other useful sounds untouched. The technology should have many uses: the American Medical Association estimates that more than 9 million U.S. workers are exposed to hazardous noise levels on the job. In some professions -- notably mining, shipbuilding, food processing and printing -- it is not unusual for young workers to begin employment with perfect hearing and end up, 25 years later, nearly deaf...
Then last week, amid a chorus of complaints from Congress and industry, came the results of two blue-ribbon studies, one by the National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors and the other by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Both concluded that what American high-technology industries need is more Government leadership, not less. Said Ian Ross, president of AT&T Bell Laboratories and chairman of NACS: "Every trend you look at is in the wrong direction for the U.S." Next day the Administration reversed itself again, denying that it had any plans for technology budget cuts...
What complicates the issue is that the electronics industry is as divided as the Administration on these questions. Even as U.S. chipmakers cry for tough Government action to open Japan's vast chip market to increased sales of American-made semiconductors, U.S. computer makers, who stuff their machines with foreign chips, are worried that trade tension could endanger their supply. In recent months, joint ventures between U.S. and Japanese chipmakers have multiplied at such a rate that it is getting hard to tell where one country's interests end and the other's begin...