Word: complain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still defending his decision not to press prosecution of Lance for bank overdrafts to finance his campaign, former U.S. Attorney Stokes called a press conference to complain that he had given the FBI a full report. The report, he said, should have been forwarded by Carter's transition team to the Ribicoff committee. "Some members of the Carter Administration withheld this information," said Stokes. Stung by accusations that he had prematurely closed the case, Stokes was clearly eager to shift the blame. "Why should I burn," he asked rhetorically, "while this Administration fiddles...
...Primarily, says the NERC, because "overlapping and conflicting" Government regulations delay construction of generating and transmission facilities. The utilities especially complain that "lack of timely and adequate rate relief (meaning approval of higher rates) endangers their ability to raise the $250 billion to $300 billion of new construction capital required in the next ten years. Also, the utilities foresee a fuel shortage. Meeting the nation's power needs, says the NERC, would require more than doubling coal output, to 1.3 billion tons by 1986. The utilities demand that the Government move faster in leasing federally owned Western land...
...criticisms are mild, centering on its institutional dislike of change and its ties to traditional legal education. One is forced to ask why he came to such an ivy-covered school if he wanted a looser kind of place. The Law School has many of the flaws that undergraduates complain of at the College: distant, overly august faculty members, unnecessary pressure, obnoxiously self-assured classmates, and all the other hallmarks of a school that is a little bit too preoccupied with itself. The Law School has other problems in addition, things like the lack of a real student community...
...from one season to the next, legs are mostly left to hoof it. Beautiful Legs are particularly badly treated in winter, when they are either stuffed into pants and rendered unviewable or left like Dickensian waifs to battle wind-chill factor through a pinch of pantyhose. When Beautiful Legs complain about this scurvy treatment, they are curtly told by designers to go take a walk...
...long-term hotel guests had one main complain in common--the distance of about two miles to Tufts...