Word: complain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smaller cars, for example-have reduced worldwide demand for steel and left mills in Europe, Japan and the U.S. with excess capacity. The Europeans and Japanese have been trying to get rid of the surplus steel by selling it in the U.S.-and also to each other; Europeans complain about the Japanese invading their home markets. U.S. steel companies have a special problem: many of their mills are old and inefficient by European and Japanese standards, and they are burdened by high labor costs as a result of generous wage boosts granted to workers. One result: third-quarter profit reports...
Despite such engaging ways, many musicians and critics complain that Rostropovich takes too many liberties with his music, both at the cello and on the podium. Cellist Starker, whose style is considerably cooler and more disciplined than Slava's, deplores -"the personal approach that disregards the composer and stresses the feelings of the individual." It is not that Rostropovich insists upon sending his disregards to the composer; he simply hears phrases, colors and rhythms that nobody else hears. The result is that when he conducts, his soloist's gift for subtlety sometimes deserts him. In Vienna two years...
...City has not been severely disrupted. The mostly Mexican-American population continues to work in the fields and the cannery; no businesses have shut down. Many people are taking cold showers or heating water in pans. They are cooking with firewood and butane and on hot plates, though some complain that tortillas do not taste as good cooked on electric skillets as they do on iron ones heated by gas. Civic organizations are sponoring free cookouts for people who cannot fend for themselves. But when cold weather arrives, Crystal City will be in more serious trouble, because most...
Delegates of smaller states will undoubtedly insist that Belgrade '77 take up particular causes dear to their hearts. Switzerland, for example, pressed the case for disarmament; Yugoslavia is expected to complain about the plight of a Slovene minority in Austria; Portugal raised the problem of its migrant "guest workers" in industrialized northern Europe. "Indeed, there are many more issues involved here than human rights, and many more countries present than the two superpowers," the lone delegate from the tiny duchy of Luxembourg remarked proudly. "Here there are a lot more of us than of them...
...spokesman for the food services in Leverett House said yesterday he did not mind the Vikings' escapades during the dinner as long as other students did not complain...