Word: complaintant
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...advances risk being labeled by some men as lesbians, a threat that can cost a woman her military career. Those who dare to complain are often branded as "too soft." Such is the backdrop against which women in the armed forces must determine whether it is worth registering a complaint when a male colleague steps out of line. Although a 1990 Pentagon study found that fully two-thirds of U.S. servicewomen have been sexually harassed by male military personnel, few file complaints. The social and professional costs, it would seem, are often too high...
...chief complaint of this campaign season is that the candidates are avoiding "the issues." But the issues can be overrated. An hour or two of spontaneous give-and-take provides an important glimpse of the candidate in real, human interaction: a taste of his temperament, a reading of his sincerity, a feeling for how he relates to people and to pressure...
Battenfield claimed in her suit that Donald Ostrowski, research coordinator in the master of liberal arts program at the Extension School, sexually harassed her, and that Shinagel did not act on her subsequent complaint. A court date will be set for her case on August...
...world in Manhattan and dreaming that the next confessional, autobiographical manuscript will justify his colossal self-importance. The only thing the roles have in common is that both show off his grace with language, whether Wilde's shimmering, overripe, pseudo-antique prose poetry or Lewis' quintessentially Manhattan cocktail of complaint and cranky insult comedy...
Ordinarily, that would not be a cause for complaint. But the fact is that they have an extraordinary subject, and you can't help wishing they had been completely up to it. For that reluctant catcher is a woman named Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis). She is the star of the Rockford Peaches, which belongs to the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, an organization that remains one of the fascinating footnotes in the history of sports and feminism...