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...these men really want to change? What's in it for them? Apparently a lot of peer pressure exists within the FSLN to behave like good egalitarians. Because AMNLAE has the status of a government organization, it has much contact with other departments and serves as a moral watchdog. But the end result can be deception. "If I felt a woman 'comrade' was inferior, I wouldn't let anyone know," one male Ministry of Health official confesses. "I'd be branded as 'counterrevolutionary.' But," he adds, "although the popular FSLN view is that a woman is more desirable...
Iacocca brashly predicts that Chrysler will show a profit in the fourth quarter, but the company is still likely to lose more than $1 billion this year. Concludes the Chrysler Corp. Loan Guarantee Board that acts as a watchdog on the company: "The judgment [on Chrysler's viability] is now a more marginal...
...church is not for sensation or effect. In our diocese in Kharkov, all the priests work zealously every day, take care of the people and preach. Thousands of priests work the same way and have no conflicts with the state." When problems arise with the state's watchdog agency, "we have respect for each other, and we always try to find a reasonable solution that would not destroy the harmony of relations between church and state, nor harm the freedom of action of the church...
...there are signs around the country that other unions are envious of the 50-per-cent representation in pension boards common to the building trades, trucking and other multi-employer industries. The International Chemical Workers have succeeded in placing a watchdog representative on one board and gaining joint control on another. In March the bargaining council of the Communication Workers of America voted to demand "effective union participation in pension fund investment policies...
...incident with the NRC, and should have led to a simple warning that would have kept T.M.I.'s operators from misreading the situation two years later. However, that warning was never issued. Now, instead of waiting for such an NRC alert, the industry has set up a new watchdog group, the Nuclear Safety Analysis Center. It will review reports of minor incidents and, if necessary, press for changes in operating practice or equipment design...