Word: complain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What needs to be said is that if the United States gives up all hope in the Middle East and Africa and resigns itself to pulling back into its tent with its materiel and its planes, if it gives up its bases over which so many people complain, if it abandons the whole world, including Great Britain and France, not 24 hours will pass before the Russian armies will have invaded Western Europe, which has fun playing like a spoiled child...
...pyramid that will rest upside down atop Bello Monte mountain. "I study the problem, the arc of the sun, the lay of the land," he said. "Then I mull over it for a couple of days. Finally the idea comes." One result of such fast work: dwellers sometimes complain about the lack of closets or kitchen windows in Niemeyer houses; builders sweat over specifications that often make light of construction problems. At Brasilia the builder of the Palace of the Dawn reported that each V-shaped pillar "took two weeks to frame and pour, another two weeks to face with...
Some foreign investors feel that the insurance, although relatively inexpensive, costs more than it is worth. Others complain of difficulty in getting speedy approval from foreign governments, which can delay a policy for months with red tape. One important drawback is that the guaranty program does not insure against devaluation, by which a nation can halve the value of its currency-and a firm's profits. Nor does it protect against sudden policy shifts, involving unfair import quotas, unfavorable exchange rates, discriminatory tax and wage laws or even government-inspired labor unrest...
...networks blame the setmakers and dealers. "If those manufacturers who complain about our poor programing would sell color sets as energetically as we program color, there would be no problem in getting color further off the ground," snapped NBC's President Robert Sarnoff. But Sarnoff was admittedly an interested witness, since RCA. NBC's parent company, makes nearly all the color sets sold, and has by far the largest investment in color's success. CBS, which has no such involvement, admits it is not boosting color at the moment, has in fact cut its color programs nearly...
...down on the farm for more than the first year or two. The Sabras, the native-born Israelis who led the Sinai war, show signs of wanting to look out for themselves as their more communal-minded parents never did. In the burgeoning cities, university-trained top civil servants complain that the $175 to $225 a month salaries allotted them in Ben-Gurion's egalitarian state barely top a hod carrier...