Word: complain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crime, cliff-hanging and blood & thunder to get a high rating . . . Let me remind you that parents still exist and we must think of the long-range disadvantage of alienating [them]." He was seconded by Miles Laboratories' (Alka-Seltzer) Lester Waddington, who reported that "Parents are beginning to complain that unless there is better programing soon, the babysitter problem will be with them again...
Over 40 percent of college investments are now in business and real estate; 20 years ago the figure was 15 percent. Economists think this trend of universities into business is dangerous--a recession would be almost fatal to institutions that have invested in risky marginal firms. Businessmen complain that some universities are using their status as "charitable institutions" to avoid Federal corporation income taxes...
Though the New Republic and Antiques share the same offices, Michael Straight never interferes with the profitable half of his odd team. In fact, staffers complain, he doesn't even read the magazine regularly...
Dollars & Drinks. Medical care costs the U.S. consumer $4 out of every $100 that he spends. This added up to a whopping $7.4 billion in 1948. (Doctors complain that the American people spend more on alcohol-$8.8 billion...
...dirty, the chairs are broken. The customers have to sit in the dark before the show starts. Those who sit in the last rows get frozen, because the exit into the street is just behind them. The screen cannot be seen well from the last rows. When the customers complain, the manager explains: 'You cannot see if you are small and the man in front of you is tall...