Word: complained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their insistence on it?extends to doctors, notably gynecologists. Women make up a remarkable 80% of the work force in the nation's health services, but overwhelmingly, they are nurses and technicians?helpers rather than leaders. Only 9% of physicians are women. Female med students still find much to complain about. Says one: "Guess what part of a male cadaver I'm assigned to dissect first." But, says Dr. Frances K. Conley...
...more serious. Because many men fear women will take their jobs away, there is much hostility. One woman apprentice machinist in Seattle was told by men workers that it was safe to put her hands into a container of acid. She did not. Others in the construction trades complain that they have been given the silent treatment for months...
ENERGY EFFICIENCY. Beginning in 1977, automobile manufacturers must meet progressively stricter gasoline-mileage standards; by 1985 the average car must get 27.5 miles per gal., an improvement of more than 50% over the current average. Most U.S. automakers complain that meeting the requirement will require an unforeseen technological breakthrough, a relaxation of exhaust-emission standards and a massive switch by consumers to automobiles about the size of General Motors' tiny Chevette, which seats four passengers and gets 32 miles per gal. The automakers would prefer using higher prices at the pump, penalties for gas-guzzling autos or refunds...
About 40% of the budget has been allotted to the Defense Ministry. As generous as that sounds, the $4.6 billion it represents means a 5% drop in purchasing power from last year's total. Military leaders complain that they are already being squeezed too hard. They point out that reservists are being called up for shorter periods, soldiers are getting less training and food is now being packaged in smaller quantities to reduce waste. "Things are getting so tight around here," says a senior Defense Ministry official, "that we're counting paper clips...
Private colleges have been pleading poverty in recent years-most eloquently in fund-raising letters mailed out to alumni. Some of the larger, research-oriented universities like Harvard, Columbia, Stanford and Chicago have reason to complain; lately their federal research grants, which represent much of their funding, have been drastically cut. But the case for most of the smaller colleges may well have been overdramatized. Last week the Association of American Colleges, which represents 886 of the smaller private institutions, reported that most of these schools are financially solvent and academically strong-perhaps even stronger than ever...