Word: complain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some veteran CIA hands complain that the naval invasion of CIA has gone too far. Turner's executive assistant, two special assistants, his speechwriter and his staff schedulemakers are all on active Navy duty. His public affairs chief is a retired Navy captain. In what even an aide says was a mistake, Turner brought in his son Geoffrey, 29, a Navy lieutenant, to work temporarily at the CIA until he enters the Naval Defense Intelligence School in Monterey, Calif., this fall. Turner points out that Geoffrey is not replacing anyone at the CIA and gets only his regular Navy...
...result, wheat prices have dropped to little more than $2 per bu., v. an average of almost $3 for last year's crop. Growers complain that if prices continue to slip they will not earn enough to cover production costs. Says Earl Hayes, president of the Kansas Wheat Growers Association: "Wheat farmers are in a severely depressed situation." Net farm income has already fallen from an alltime high of $33 billion in 1973 to $22 billion last year, and has continued to decline so far in 1977. Much of the rise in food prices in recent years, says Hayes...
Concentrators complain of a feeling of impotence as they witness the emergence of such trends, saying that the absence of fulltime tenured faculty members in Afro--coupled with Southern's alleged refusal to formally meet with students--deny concentrators the kind of access to the depart- ment's decision making process as mandated in Afro's charter. The issue of full-time tenured Afro faculty opens up still another Pandora's box of troubles in the department, controversies that can be reduced to two basic developments: the introduction of joint tenure appointments in Afro over the last few years...
...students complain about the University Health Services, but very few have as much reason to do so as Mary E. Munch '80, who went to UHS in December and was sent home with what they diagnosed as influenza. The real reason for her vomiting and severe nausea, it turned out, was her appendix, which burst while she was flying home to Denver for Christmas break...
Whether or not they are happy, it seems almost an axiom that the rapidly rich fritter few hours frivolously. They mostly abhor time-consuming activities like heading Kiwanis drives, playing golf, drinking till dawn, and being sick in bed. Though they often complain about their limited playtime, almost all the nouveaux share a drive to accumulate assets beyond any expectation of liquidating the lucre...