Word: complain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roots of the racial violence are familiar: a suspicion of unfamiliar customs and a tendency to blame problems on newcomers. Many Bradfordians complain that destitute immigrants are given cash payments by the government when they disembark at Heathrow Airport, while white pensioners must scrimp along on inadequate retirement pay. Describing herself as opposing immigration, Shopkeeper Patricia Barrow is convinced that the Pakistanis inhumanely slaughter sheep and chickens according to Islamic ritual; she also fears that "colored boys will be hanging around white girls...
...comes in one color--black. "Black goes with everything. If you want colors, get a peacock," the brochure suggests. For five bucks the shiny black stuff is "guaranteed to just sit there and if it doesn't, that's perfectly all right too, and you have no right to complain." A pushy bunch, eh? But it's o.k., as long as "Alumpa" isn't all that winds up in your Christmas stocking...
...composition of the board has diversified--including women and minority-group members as well as a complement of the white male businessmen who traditionally manned the board--the fundraisers complain they've had a harder time raising money...
Because the new generations of Overseers have ties to government, education and the arts as well as to business, the fundraisers complain, they don't pay enough attention to the basic facts of life and don't have contacts in monied circles. And the fundraisers' job is harder as a result...
...also exists in the Prosperity Training bank account: $250 a customer, which brings in about $12,000 a course, two or three times a month. In addition, a few well-heeled clients pay Sunshine $5,000 each for private training. There are always a few spoilsports who complain. One real estate agent who took the course called it "a watered-down version of est: undignified, mortifying and insulting to one's intelligence." But some trainees can't get enough Sunshine. Of the students in one recent class, one-third were repeat customers...