Word: complain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Letters from Soviet listeners, in fact, filter through fairly often. Some write to complain about programs they consider unfair to the Soviet Union. But many more make it clear that the diversity of opinion expressed in foreign broadcasts provides the most credible source for news about their own country as well as the world. Regular listeners are kept informed about U.S. urban strife and protests against the war in Viet Nam, for example, and the BBC led off a roundup of editorial comment two weeks ago with the disarmingly frank observation that "most politicians must agree that...
...This is not in sight," Galbraith observed. "The fact that the well-nourished fields do not complain and the others see little purpose in doing so should not persuade anyone that all is well...
...integrative function of the army lies in its teaching Hebrew and technical and mechanical skills and in making the immigrants feel Israeli," Eisenstadt said. "This has been so successful within the army that when immigrants complain of discrimination, they usually complain of everything but the army," he continued, even though, if they take a close look at the officers and the higher echelons of the Israeli armed forces they "would probably find that they are less proportionately represented than in most other places...
...Massachusetts Statehouse, refusing to budge until police carted them away. Forty-four more were arrested last week in Cleveland when they took over the big welfare offices on St. Clair Avenue. Such demonstrations by the welfare poor have become commonplace. Even as politicians and taxpayers bitterly complain about spiraling welfare budgets, those on the receiving end are demanding-and receiving-far more...
...prices, local realty taxes and interest charges. Still, that is a goal worth reaching. The biggest problem is getting well-known new methods used. Despite their cooperative attitude in Chicago, labor unions are widely expected to balk when today's modular programs grow larger. And some black militants already complain that instant houses are mere "crackerboxes...