Word: complain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resident newsmen, jealous that they rarely have access to either Inner Mongolia or Premier Chou, have far more to complain about. Their living conditions may be excellent; a modern, eight-room apartment rents for $180 a month, and the wages for a domestic staff of four-interpreter, driver, cook and maid-are only $290 a month. But the Western reporters must labor under conditions alien to their professional standards. The Chinese make serious political analysis and hard-news reporting almost impossible...
...society awake, found himself defending Nixon before students at the University of Idaho. When Nixon's foreign policy was criticized as too little too late, Hall told the audience that the "what have you done for me lately" approach had two sides. "If you are going to complain about things not being done, then it is only fair to give credit when something is finally done." Hall and most of the students want Nixon out of office. Over a Scotch, he pondered why Westerners favor impeachment more than others. "Change is not frightening out here," he said. "They...
...available to its military effort, though it is not known how many are actually engaged in such research. In 1960 Russia had 225,000 research scientists and engineers, while the U.S. had 400,000. Today Russia has 625,000, and the U.S. 550,000. Schlesinger and other Pentagon planners complain that the Soviets have deployed one new submarine-launched missile and are testing four new land-based missiles. The U.S. is planning a new missile for the Trident submarine but has no new ICBM in the works...
...goods for trucking companies on a contract basis, can average $20,000 a year in normal times. They argue that the shortage of fuel and the rise in prices from around 27? per galin September to 45? at present is paring their income by one-third or more. They complain that fuel-short stations often limit them to 25 or even ten gallons at a time. That has forced them to lose time and money chasing from truck stop to truck stop to keep their rigs running. About half of the nation's food is shipped in trucks...
...only dimly understood then-or since. Not long after the phrase was incorporated into the U.S. Constitution, the British, who invented it to encompass both criminal acts and behavior that tended to undermine a government's integrity, discarded it. The impeachment provision led an exasperated Tocqueville to complain: "Nothing can be more alarming than the vagueness with which political offenses are described in America...