Word: complain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insist on waving $50 bills at ticket sellers, no one is likely to tattle on them, and some violations of the code can be expected. But if a cold-eyed broker tries to shake down a customer by demanding sums like that, the victim now has a commissioner to complain...
...that doctors find the difficulty relatively easy to diagnose. But small clots that block some of the smaller arterial branches are far more common than such massive pulmonary embolisms. The trouble is, they are so hard to detect that the true nature of the illness is often missed. Patients complain of shortness of breath, they faint frequently, and they may collapse after exertion, leaving their doctors baffled. Now, atomic medicine is coming to the aid of chest physicians and embolism patients with an ingenious and relatively simple diagnostic procedure...
...products as rapidly as smaller but more profitable regional companies. At the same time, the corporation is among those most hurt by cut-price imports from Japan and Europe, for it is a major producer of the products most heavily imported-bars, wires, pipes. Many U.S. Steelmen also complain that Government harassment prevents them from expanding their markets or raising prices as high as they would like. The Government has filed no fewer than six anti trust suits against U.S. Steel since Roger Blough's price fight with President Kennedy...
...West senses some growing pains. Southern California last year started more new houses and apartments-200,000-than any entire state, but local contractors now complain of overbuilding. Cutbacks in defense-spending during April resulted in 5,000 layoffs in California, which depends upon the Pentagon for fully one-third of its manufacturing output. But personal income in neighboring Nevada last year ran 13% ahead of the 1962 rate-a more rapid gain than any other state's-mostly because of its returns from legalized gambling...
...scientists complain that the men in Washington are not spending enough...