Word: complains
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...series of student upheavals at German universities that are perhaps the most serious of all. There is widespread agreement that the country's once proud centers of learning are, for the most part, hopelessly moribund. Autocratic professors are still kings in their own classrooms, and students complain bitterly about the irrelevance of many lectures. A history student, for example, can study for five years without hearing a single lecture on the Third Reich. Undergraduates receive little or no personal guidance from undermanned faculties: the University of Hamburg has fewer than 200 teachers to handle 20,000 students; "seminars...
...Myriad technicalities still face the Concorde-and eventually the SST-before it can go into commercial competition. One big potential stumbling block is the fact that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration must pass on the plane-and should it find the Concorde not air worthy, the French would surely complain that the FAA was dragging its feet to let the Boeing model catch up. The FAA is particularly wary of the fuel and noise problems. Four powerful Olympus engines consume great quantities of jet fuel, requiring reserves that will add weight and cut down on income. Just how much fuel...
...Another reason that complaints have been slow in accumulating is that promotional discrimination is more difficult to spot than discrimination in hiring practices. "Supervisors can, in subtle ways, throw blocks at a Negro," says Raymond Scannell, a white member of the Chicago Human Rights Commission. One of the blocks, complain Negroes, is lily-white upgrading instead of the old lily-white hiring practices...
...increasingly introspective about race relations, say that the crucial problem is the distressingly small number of Negroes with the competence-education, skill and drive-to hold executive positions. Even college graduates are more often trained in such professions as law or medicine than in science or business administration. Banks complain that they no sooner groom Negroes for higher-level jobs than higher-paying companies lure them away...
Teachers who have adjusted to the new courses frequently run up against parental misunderstandings. Since the discovery approach accents the learning of basic principles rather than concrete facts-such as learning the parts of an internal-combustion engine or memorizing the table of elements-parents complain that their children "aren't learning anything." A more serious problem is evaluating a child's performance in discovery classes. One study showed that many students who made A's and B's in traditional physics courses slipped to C's and D's in the new courses...