Word: complained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newly vocal conservative element in the U.S. Catholic Church, however, all too many liberals have not only remained in the church but moved quietly into control of the chanceries, the seminaries and parochial schools. Moreover, conservatives complain, some bishops are now wielding against the right the same hierarchical clout that they once used against the left...
...stood to receive Holy Communion?" Believing in an ecclesiastical domino theory, Mrs. Wegner and many like her find the beginnings of Catholic troubles in even the minor changes wrought by Vatican II. Now, faced with a world of rapid and bewildering change, shifting values and lost standards, they complain that neither their church nor their schools still teach the sound old traditions...
...national standards to replace a welter of conflicting health and safety guidelines, send inspectors to factories, stores and offices to check on compliance, levy stiff fines on violators and even order unsafe businesses to close down. In operation, however, OSHA has pleased almost no one. Labor leaders complain, correctly, that job-accident rates have not dropped, and charge that OSHA lacks the money and manpower to begin to do its job adequately. Many businessmen protest that OSHA inspectors often enforce arbitrarily regulations that are too strict and prohibitively expensive to obey...
Some of the business complaints seem clearly exaggerated. Big companies generally have little trouble complying with OSHA rules. The loudest protests come from medium-sized businesses-which have the highest accident rates. Many owners of these firms complain that the cost of obeying OSHA rules could drive them into bankruptcy. But when Democratic Representative Joseph Gaydos of Pennsylvania pressed Richard Berman, director of labor law for the Chamber of Commerce, to name a firm that had been put out of business by OSHA rules, Berman admitted he could not cite even...
...that its graduates have moved from big but largely invisible roles in the bureaucracy to real political power, the school itself is coming under attack. Leftists complain, with some justification, that the E.N.A. has fostered the same sort of elitism that De Gaulle wanted to break down since many of the applicants tend to be the bright, ambitious offspring of the well-to-do. Thus Jean-Pierre Cot, a leading Socialist, sees the school's success not as a triumph of excellence but "of a certain political class which has come out of a little, lofty fraction...