Word: complainers
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Labor Catches Up. German businessmen complain that they are in danger of being priced out of world markets because wages in West Germany have been rising twice as fast as productivity. With labor costs up 21% in the past two years. German factory workers now earn an average $35 for a 45½hour week, the highest industrial wage scale in the Common Market. And contrary to popular myth, they work less than other Europeans- about 14 days a year less than Dutch workers, for example. Nonetheless, union leaders continue to press for higher pay, arguing that they are simply...
Plenty of Critics. Earth's Dogmatics, says Langdon Gilkey of Vanderbilt University's divinity school, "is the most impressive and most complete statement of the Christian faith in this century." Other theologians complain that if anyone tried to read all that Barth says about the Word of God he would have no time to read the Word of God itself. Barth's interpretation of that Word has plenty of critics. Both Niebuhr and Tillich think that he is too critical of the cultural disciplines, such as philosophy and anthropology, which attempt to give man an insight into...
With that, Mansfield began scouting around to see if any Southerners wanted to resume the filibuster. "We were careful to check all of those fellows," said Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey, "so that they couldn't complain that we'd tried to rush them. We asked John Stennis and Lister Hill and all the rest. But none of them was going to have any more to say." After the lopsided final Senate vote, the amendment was sent to the House; if approved by two-thirds of the members, it will still require ratification by three-fourths of the state...
Less than two years ago, most of Germany's imported labor worked at menial jobs in the building and construction industry. But recently the scarcity of domestic skilled labor has forced employers to train the unskilled foreign apprentices. Some German workers complain that the new arrivals work too hard, even though the labor shortage last year pushed wages up 9.6% while productivity rose only 2.9%. To keep the foreign employees happy, the state government and the Ford plant in Cologne plan to spend $12 million on new housing for 4,000 workers; other employers have hired Italian cooks...
Answered a question on federal aid schools by listing four on which an educational system be based. This prompted one to complain, after the that Hughes had been unsatisfying in his answers...