Word: complain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less ideological, but still very important reasons to protest. Harvard, over the last two years, has been a frustrating place for SDS. The organization has never been able to achieve a truly wide impact; no issue has seemed clear-cut enough to attract strong, long-term support. SDS members complain about the apathy of the average Harvard student. They often yearn for something closer to a Berkeley. The Harvard student body doesn't seem to get stirred up, and the Harvard administration is difficult to offend...
While U.S. employers have reason to complain about soaring labor costs, the fact is that wages have been rising much faster in other major nations, notably those of Western Europe. Between the 1958 start of the Common Market and 1965, U.S. workers' pretax wages went up 14%. During that seven-year period, pretax wages jumped 25% in Italy, 29% in France, 40% in Denmark, 41% in The Netherlands, and 53% in West Germany...
With so many people writing in to complain to the Selective Service about his exemption, a New York City draft board decided to have another look at Lynda Johnson's beau, Actor George Hamilton, 27. George has been exempted on grounds that he is the sole financial support of his mother, Mrs. Anne Hamilton Spalding, who, after four divorces, lives in her son's $200,000 Beverly Hills house. The board has ordered him to report Nov. 7 for a physical exam and possible reclassification. In Munich, where he's filming Jack of Diamonds, George broke...
Healthy Disrespect. In its early editions, the W.R.D. offered a generous mixture of serious articles and scientific humor. Then, after receiving a particularly indignant letter from a famous scientist who complained that he had read most of a "technical" report before recognizing it as satire, McConnell decided to make a more obvious separation between types of articles. Humorous contributions are now printed upside down in the back half of the W.R.D. (or right side up in the front half, if you happen to open it from the back), along with a topsy-turvy back cover. This repositioning has caused...
...consequence, many of the hastily framed Great Society programs, however admirable, have not been carefully restudied in terms of cost, maximum efficacy and relevance to the nation's needs. Many state and city officials complain that such badly needed federal programs as the war on poverty and new educational ventures sometimes take too little account of local conditions. Federal specifications for the management of some antipoverty programs, for example, are the same in generally prosperous rural areas as in city ghettos; New York, with the highest number of addicts in the nation, gets no more dollar...