Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...branding one another on their right cheeks with sponges that had been dipped in paint. Some demonstrators suggested that cows could be identified with an ear tag, a tattoo or even a strategically placed microchip. Late in the week a federal district court judge in Rochester, responding to a complaint from the local Humane Society against Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng, issued a temporary restraining order to halt the branding and directed the USDA to inform all dairymen participating in the program of his action. A full judicial hearing on the issue will be held this week...
...prime U.S. complaint is that Moscow has lately abandoned private diplomacy in favor of a new series of grandiose--and uncomfortably skillful --public initiatives. These began with Gorbachev's January proposals to eliminate all nuclear weapons from the earth by the end of the century. Though the proposals had some interesting elements, Gorbachev annoyed the U.S. by disclosing them to the White House only hours before Soviet television trumpeted them to the world. Meanwhile, U.S. officials complain, the Kremlin has let private contacts dwindle to almost nothing and passed up opportunities for serious talk about more achievable agreements...
...Melrose Park, Ill., has had no dearth of job applicants. In fact, says Bruce Nagel, director of human resources, "we've had people say, 'I want to work here because of your stand on smoking.' " But other job seekers are not so happy. Amy Lipson, a smoker, filed a complaint with New York State's division of human rights after she was turned down for a position at Fortunoff's, a department store in Westbury. "In general, smokers are a self-indulgent group and selfish people, who ignore the rules against smoking and could endanger themselves and others," testified Company...
...cases. Says Karen Sauvigne, a New York City feminist: "If the Supreme Court reverses the case, it will be a devastating blow to women's rights. It will turn the tide." Many employers, however, fear that a Vinson victory will make companies liable even in harassment cases where no complaint was filed and where top executives had no knowledge of abusive behavior. Guidelines issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission clearly hold employers liable, but the courts have not yet reached a consensus on the issue...
Postel says that he and Lisa Chertkov '85, the patient advocate, review all the complaints that UHS has received every week. Postel says that in the last six months, the worst complaint UHS has received has concerned two prescription errors which were corrected and in which the patients involved were not injured...