Word: complain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vehement critics of the church; that what was once the church's first line of defense should now seem to be a fifth column. Many Catholic parents complain, for example, that their sons attending Jesuit schools are sheltered from neither the drug culture, early sex, political radicalism nor the general youthful antagonism to modern society. A young St. Louis Jesuit counters: "We no longer exist to give the conservative Catholic a pat on the back...
Since Lowell house has a larger proportion of livingrooms, the Winthrop students complain that the present quotas do not take into account the greater flexibility available to Lowell in connecting suites and turning extra livingrooms into bedrooms...
...canners have been hardest hit, because customers are reluctant to pay deposits on cans and are buying more bottled products. One Eugene firm, Emerald Canning Co., has shut down; California's Shasta Beverages, which distributes its drinks in cans, is also suffering financially in its Oregon operations. Bottlers complain about the cost of picking up empties and retooling plants to wash and refill them...
...them: a more generous cost-of-living escalator, some kind of profit-sharing plan, and by far the most important, a new right for workers to refuse to put in overtime. Heavy overtime has enabled a few workers to earn as much as $20,000 a year, but many complain that the long hours leave them too exhausted to enjoy the money. Meeting that demand would be costly to the companies: it could cause production delays, force the hiring of many more workers, or both. Malcolm Denise, Ford's chief negotiator, warns that if the U.A.W. is serious...
...that they are obeyed, the guidelines will crimp bank profits by holding rates on many loans below the level that they would reach if there were no restrictions. Even so, the new system, which by no means satisfies Patman, might be an improvement on present conditions. Right now, banks complain, money that they would like to reserve for loans to small businesses and consumers is being swallowed by big corporations rushing to borrow at a bargain prime rate; the 6½% prime that Burns has temporarily forced down the banks' throats is significantly lower than...