Word: complain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...criteria exist to guide the Corps of Engineers in planning projects or Congress in reviewing and authorizing them, Maass and Cooper point out. "Since World War II, no President has initiated legislation to establish a consistent set of standards," they complain...
Though people complain about their faulty memories as often as about the weather, memory is just about the most durable phenomenon in human nature. Once imprinted in the brain, specific memories withstand the most devastating attacks, such as electric shock and mind-deadening drugs. This is so great a mystery that there was a packed house in Berkeley last week as a dozen different breeds of scientists convened at the University of California for a two-day symposium on "Behavior, Brain and Biochemistry...
According to the teachers, academic freedom at St. John's is heavily restricted. Philosophy professors complain that the school insists upon a narrow, dogmatic approach to Thomism, using Aquinas only to criticize other thinkers. The university insists on the right to clear all articles and books to be published by faculty members...
Revision has been long overdue. First compiled in 1549 by Thomas Cranmer, Edward VI's Archbishop of Canterbury, the Prayer Book was an attempt to combine and simplify the services of the English church in a language understood by the people. Today, however, pastors frequently complain that the Prayer Book's stately, frosty prose is often more of a barrier to prayer than an invitation...
...with the so-called "voluntary" controls on spending and lending abroad. Some Keynesians believe that these policies violate Keynes's theories because they are basically microeconomic instead of macroeconomic ?because they restrict prices, wages and capital movements in some parts of the economy but not others. Businessmen also complain about what they call "government by guideline or "the managed economy, but not with total