Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Essay "In Praise of Older Women" (TIME, April 24), he was inundated with notes thanking him for his encouraging insights. But other readers suggested that his double standard was showing. "Since when would men in their 30s be considered older men?" queried one. A young girl had a special complaint. "When I was two, it was terribly fashionable to be a teenager. Now that I'm a teenager, anyone under 30 is considered immature. Will I forever be at the mercy of the demographic bulge...
Tindemans' complaint reflected a feeling of uneasiness about the growing French military role in Africa. France now has the second largest external force on the continent-after the Cubans. In addition to the legionnaires in Shaba, Paris has 7,000 troops garrisoned in such former possessions as the Ivory Coast, Senegal, Gabon and Djibouti. French forces also serve with the United Nations in Lebanon and twice recently-in Mauritania and Chad-have come to the assistance of governments facing intense guerrilla pressure. The increasingly visible presence of Giscard's troops has earned them the unflattering sobriquet "the French...
Stepak decided to sue after learning of the case brought by Engineer Allan Bakke, whose "reverse discrimination" complaint against the medical school of the University of California at Davis is before the U.S. Supreme Court. Bakke, who is white, charges that he was unconstitutionally discriminated against when he applied for medical school, because Davis reserved 16 places in its entering class for racial-minority students. While Bakke sweats out the decision, Asar Stepak is waiting too. And his is just one of a growing number of reverse-discrimination cases that have been slowed or stalled in the lower courts...
...first target was, of all people, that exemplar of wholesomeness Pat Boone. With Daughter Debbie he appeared on TV to claim that all four of his daughters had found a preparation named Acne-Statin a "real help" in keeping their skins clear. The FTC has filed a complaint against the manufacturer, Karr Preventative Medical Products, Inc., of Beverly Hills, contending that the product does not really keep skin free of blemishes. Last week it got Boone to sign a consent order in which he promised not only to stop appearing in the ads but to pay about...
...United Technologies, the parent of Pratt & Whitney. Only last month executives of both companies blasted Eastern Air Lines' $778 million purchase of 19 European-made A300 Airbuses, charging that the deals had been "unfairly subsidized" by the German, French and Spanish governments. Boeing never had strong grounds for complaint anyway-it accounts for more than half of all commercial plane sales in the non-Communist world. To keep up with traffic growth and meet noise and pollution standards, the airlines are generally expected to buy up to 1,500 planes worth $80 billion between now and 1990, and that...