Word: complain
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Birmingham, of course, has not been totally transformed. "We don't make any claim that we've licked racism," says Mayor Vann, "but we've learned to face the problem candidly and not play games." City Councilman Richard Arrington complains that much of what has been done so far in Birmingham is "still very much tokenism." Arrington protests, for instance, that blacks "still have difficulty cracking the suburbs." Mayor Vann worries about white flight from the city; black leaders complain that Birmingham may not be able to provide jobs to match new expectations, and that housing integration...
Washington Correspondent Stanley Cloud, who has been on the road or in Plains, Ga., with Carter for nearly a year, finds the assignment unexpectedly rewarding. Says he: "Cynics complain that within the confines of a presidential campaign-with all its jet planes and buses and motorcades-one learns nothing at all about America. I disagree. I've learned more about America, about the astounding diversity of this country, than I ever knew before...
Regular merchants complain that the new markets cut sorely into business. In the Motor City, for instance, more and more residents are doing all their food shopping on weekends at the sprawling Detroit market. Says Nowal Makhoul, owner of a local fruit market: "Without the Detroit market, we'd be booming. With it, it's a real struggle." In Nashville, Tenn., merchants once tried strenuously-but unsuccessfully -to close down market stalls as violations of zoning regulations...
Jerry Ford, conscientious but not herculean, competent but not brilliant, solid, self-confident, good-natured and decent but not at all spellbinding, the same old Jerry Ford-that is the image that he will project to the delegates in Kansas City this week. His critics complain he has failed to grow dramatically in stature or skill in the job that he holds and wants to keep. His friends compliment him for avoiding the pomposity, the paranoia and the isolation that have been occupational hazards for some of his predecessors. Both the critics and the friends are right. Ford is remarkably...
Certainly, Reagan's embracing of a liberal has opened Ford's Veep options. It is hard to see how the Reaganites can complain if Ford chooses anyone to the right of Schweiker-which includes just about every prominent Republican...