Word: complain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rather than retaining the current system at the Quad. The report termed four class Houses "the ideal but least feasible alternative" (1.4-8a), and keeping our freshmen scarcely requires "construction and rearrangement of the campus." Why is it that uniformity outweighs all other factors? Would the Yard freshmen complain about missing "the mix of classes (which) would be very positive" (1.4-8s)? Perhaps the fear is that upperclassmen complain about having freshmen underfoot. But sophomores wanting to move do this because it is a 'legitimate' reason in Harvard's eyes, whereas irrational prejudice and a dislike of walking...
...easily run to $110. Common Market members also charge that their efforts to sell to Japan are hamstrung by nontariff barriers to trade. For example, European auto manufacturers (who export a mere 26,000 cars to Japan, v. the 400,000 the Japanese ship to the Nine) complain about a cumbersome maze of customs procedures, pollution and safey requirements, and baffling testing regulations...
Most disturbing, Aeroflot's safety record has been bad enough to prompt the Soviet civil aviation ministry to complain three years ago of inadequate training and negligent checking of equipment. Since then there has been some improvement. Aeroflot pilots used to be notorious for wandering off the flight path at London's Heathrow Airport. Today they seldom do, perhaps because of Moscow's regular post-international-flight review of cockpit tapes recording pilot procedures...
...later White said she realized she was "a token," adding that she had "gone all the way to the top" to complain that no other women had been hired...
...President Ford ordered an investigation by his Council on Wage and Price Stability. Acting Director William Lilley III asked National for production, cost and profit-and-sales data and said the market appears to be no stronger than last summer. COWPS, however, has no power to do anything except complain-and perhaps pass the buck to President-elect Jimmy Carter, who is committed to trying to get industry and labor to follow voluntary wage-price guidelines...