Word: complain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whom benefit from their ability to raise and spend more than would-be challengers, are unlikely to vote for any such measures. Says Thomas Houston, chairman of California's fair political practices commission: "Oh, there will be talk of reform. People will write letters and editorials; legislators will complain about the time wasted fund raising. But the public will lose interest...
White House aides were understandably furious. Said one ranking insider: "It was the most blatantly partisan election-night coverage that I have ever seen." Presidential Spokesman David Gergen telephoned Stahl during the broadcast to complain. She relayed the protest to Rather, but it apparently had no effect on him or his colleagues. Next day, on the CBS Evening News, Moyers opined that the elections had "crippled the Republican Party...
...complain," Crimson Coach Edie Mabrey said yesterday, "though it was a disappointment...
Despite mounting evidence that Viet Nam is using Soviet chemicals in its battle against anti-Communist insurgents in Laos and Cambodia, there has been little international outcry. A chief culprit, U.S. State Department officials complain, is the U.N., which had been conspicuously reluctant to investigate the U.S. charges vigorously. In a speech in West Berlin last year, then Secretary of State Alexander Haig charged the Soviets and their allies with violating the 1925 Geneva Protocol on chemical warfare and the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. One month after Haig's charge in West Berlin, the first U.N. team...
...greatest difficulties in getting to the heart of some minority students' complaints is that they deal with a highly subjective question, subtle bias. It would be difficult to quantify as subjective a quality as how much "encouragement" a coach gives different players. And while many minorities complain about being played less frequently in relation to their talents, Reardon points legitimately to the danger of second-guessing. Difficult decisions on playing time, he says, are exactly the coaches job. Almost as difficult is sifting through the complaints to find out which of the perceived biases are actually racial. A truism...