Word: complain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the remake is as enchanting as E.T., no one can complain. But a prodigiously gifted film maker like Spielberg might hold even his youthful fans if he were to expand his range and make other kinds of movies-as Lucas and John Carpenter and Brian De Palma might. The stray adventurous mogul might be persuaded to finance their ventures into the adult world. And the baby-boom audience, just now approaching early middle age, might follow them. All this could happen tomorrow, and nobody could guarantee that the movie industry would break another box-office record. But the eager...
...remains fiercely controversial. Community leaders say more children will use it once the bums have their proposed second haven. Police complain that the park has done little to draw derelicts away from downtown or reduce crime. Some downtown businessmen maintain that derelicts do not deserve a haven anyway. Says Todd Bennitt, 33, the designer in charge of the project at POD, "The jury is still...
...theory, a desktop computer could be a labor-and time-saving boon to executives with a voracious need for information about the state of their businesses. But some managers complain that computers are simply too hard to use. Mervyn Weich, 44, senior vice president of Zayre Corp., a retailing chain, says sitting in front of a terminal and trying to extract information is unacceptably difficult and time consuming. "If I could talk to the computer as easily as I talk to my administrative assistant, yes, I'd use it," he explains. "But it's a lot of work...
Some change in policy does appear to have taken place. In the past, censors customarily limited their cuts to demonstrably military and strategic-not political-matters. Now some American journalists are beginning to complain that Israeli censorship is sometimes broadened to include politically sensitive reportage, particularly on subjects that might affect support for Israel among U.S. audiences...
...addition, the tenants complain that the few Harvard-owned units they are being shown do not meet the specific guidelines for apartmentsize and rent ceilings agreed upon in the settlement...