Word: complain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would soon be ready. Prominent Senators leaned hard on him. Glenn would not budge. His position: as soon as adequate verification was reinstated, he would vote for the treaty. The President, frustrated at what he considered Glenn's tunnel vision, telephoned him at home early one morning to complain further. Carter afterward told his staff he had never been so mad at anyone in his life. Glenn says he never thought he would hear himself talk to a President that way. "It hurt the country," one of the men who tried to persuade him remembers. "Glenn's stand...
...used Mexico as a backup labor source, and Mexico has counted on the annual flow of its natives as a "safety valve" for relieving the pressure of its high unemployment. Although the Mexican government of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado has avoided taking a public position, Mexican leaders complain bitterly in private that the U.S. is making a unilateral decision about a problem the countries share and is "criminalizing" the immigrants...
When critics complain that such precedent-busting verdicts make little sense, plaintiffs' attorneys like Charles Kavalaris of San Jose, Calif., reply: "The innocent victim of an accident should have somewhere to go if he can prove liability. If you look at it through the eyes of a quadriplegic, it's a fairly simple question to answer." Defendants' lawyers, on the other hand, fume. Attorney Stephen Newton of Mountain View, Calif., recently settled a claim by a victim who was paralyzed for life in an auto accident. Newton, representing a trucking company whose driver was essentially a bystander...
...Closer to home, the pride disappears and we complain a whole...
...converted last year from an indoor track with a dirt floor to a basketball court with a portable astroturf covering--suffered from minor structural problems in its first year of use. Though most athletes and coaches using the facility praise it as an excellent multi-use complex, some complain of inadequate ventilation and problems with the worn floor surface. Officials call these problems "minor" and say repairs are currently being considered...