Word: complains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Snoop Scope. Still, despite the wealth, the excitement, the glamour, there are those who are less than happy with the Nixon presence. One group, though hardly in a position to complain, is the Mexican wetbacks, who since time immemorial have used the beach past the Nixon compound as an invasion route. Situated about 70 miles north of the Mexican border, the San Clemente beach had always provided an excellent detour around the Government checkpoints on the freeway northward. Now the beach is manned by dozens of Secret Service agents with infra-red lenses and every kind of detector imaginable...
Crisis of Costs. For their part, the companies complain that absenteeism runs as high as 10% on Mondays and Fridays and 15% the day after payday. Sabotage-paint scraped with screw drivers, upholstery slashed-is common. Numerous defects have roused consumer complaints about quality control. Automen complain that hourly pay and benefits have increased nearly three times as much as productivity since 1965. The resulting increase in the price of U.S. cars makes Detroit increasingly vulnerable to foreign competition, which now accounts for 13% of the U.S. market. As long ago as last February, G.M. Chairman James Roche...
...Turkana women of East Africa still perfume their bodies over fires of scented wood. The Hausa wives of northern Nigeria still amass huge fortunes in the form of thousands upon thousands of Japanese-made enamel bowls, which they cram into their huts, causing at least one Hausa husband to complain bitterly: "I don't even have enough room to pray...
...called supergrades, GS-16 to GS-18, have been raised as much as 80%. A GS-18 employee, typically a division chief in a department, earned $18,500 in 1960; today the pay is $35,505. Many private employers consider the top rates to be outrageously high. They complain that they cannot afford to match the federal levels for lawyers, economists and even public relations...
Preference for Officers. The least attractive Government jobs are in the Social Security Administration, the Veterans Administration and the General Services Administration, which mostly offer jobs in the lower classifications. At the Department of Defense, which employs 43% of all federal workers, civil servants complain that the Air Force hires so many retired officers for top civilian jobs that it cuts off career employees' hopes for advancement...