Word: complain
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...scoring over 600) has been dropping. A report commissioned by the College Board found that scores of top students ?valedictorians and salutatorians in 145 high schools?showed a similar decline. Graduates who claim that they are illiterate have taken school boards to court in some states. Meanwhile, colleges complain of entering freshmen who read at the sixth-grade level...
...title than me rack up a lot of yards," Doherty claims. "Sure, it makes me feel good when people tell me I should carry more, because it means I'm doing a good job. But I'm not the kind of player who's going to complain to the coaches or make waves on the team--that stuff just hurts the team...
MOST CAMBRIDGE RESIDENTS continue to complain that it's unpleasant to have Harvard building in the backyard. But unfortunately, this community group lacks the kind of energy it needs to stop it. The fight against the Kennedy Library gained momentum as time wore on and finally succeeded in wearing Harvard out, thus breaking a long string of Harvard victories in town-gown fights. But now it looks like old times again...
Carter does intend to propose taxing all capital gains at full ordinary-income rates (at present, only half the profit on sales of assets such as stock and real estate is usually taxed). Businessmen complain that that would inhibit the very investment the President says he is so anxious to promote. Says James L. Moody Jr., president of Hannaford Bros. Co., a Maine food distributor: "The chief incentive to invest in business is to make money. Such proposals will slow down businessmen's investments in the U.S. at a time when countries like the Soviet Union and Japan...
...been pretty much stuck at around 6% annually since the spring of 1975, and most economists predict that it will continue at about that pace through next year; some recent easing has been illusory because it has reflected a drop in food prices that will not last. Businessmen complain that Carter seems to have no idea how to bring the rate down; the "anti-inflation" policy he announced last April turned out to be largely a list of regulatory and review measures...