Word: apa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while American has already begun canceling both domestic and overseas flights. The pilots say they would accept lower wages for flying the 40 to 75-passenger regional jets, a growing part of the market, as long as their union, the Allied Pilots Association, is allowed to represent the pilots. APA pilots' salaries average $120,000, but the industry wage for pilots of regional jets is about $35,000. American quickly slammed the door on that proposal, saying it wants to use pilots from its commuter service, American Eagle. Said one spokesman: "In reality, those jets are going to be operated...
...year-old Adirondack Park Agency regulates growth. But it also generates fury--expressed by barn burning, tire slashing and vehicle shooting, in addition to much heated talk. One of the angriest is Richard Schoenstadt, 44, a surveyor's assistant who bought 54 riverfront acres, intending to subdivide. The apa insisted on an exhaustive biological inventory. Then, says Schoenstadt, who between fighting and complying lost the property and his $50,000 savings, the agency wanted assurance that his picnic tables would not float away during floods...
...increasing scrutiny, raising fresh examples in the ongoing debate over experimental ethics. How can scientists be held accountable for harm to an experimental subject? Must individual rights always supersede the quest for knowledge? "This is an issue that has been around since the Nazi experiments," says Susan Knapp, the APA's director of publications. "If the conditions for a research project were unethical but the science is good, what do you do with...
Christine Courtois, also in the APA work group and a clinical director at the Psychiatric Institute in Washington, charges that criticism of the recovered-memory phenomenon is part of a backlash against society's tardy recognition of widespread sexual abuse. The "wholesale degradation of psychotherapy by some critics," she says, represents "displaced rage" at therapists for bringing the issue to public attention...