Word: complain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funding of this conference, but it is unfortunate that I was not informed of it until two days ago. As it happens I had received Professor Malik's paper only the day before and had not yet read it or prepared my comments, so I cannot complain of having been put to extensive labor. I would like to think that my comments would have come out pretty much the same. But it is the case that a CIA connection of any sort can severely compromise one's scholarly reputation, certainly in India or Pakistan. I would add that the involvement...
...their own independent nation within Sri Lanka. Now they have softened this demand, while still seeking self government for those areas of the island in the north and the east where they constitute a majority. The nearly two million Tamils in these regions, most of them Hindu, complain of persecution at the hands of the country's 12 million Sinhalese, who are predominantly Buddhist. The Tamils' main hope for the future now rests with Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who helped arrange the latest cease-fire. Tamil leaders are pressing Gandhi to persuade Sri Lankan President Junius Jayewardene to grant...
...they weren't concerned enough about HSA's postering job during the week before nominations were originally due to complain to the student-run corporation. "If they had called me," said Stanley I. Rosenzwig '87, the HSA manager responsible for postering, "I would have told them, 'Look, I'll do it again at no charge.'" But he said all the postering was done as scheduled...
This method has scored some dazzling successes over the years. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, for example, used it to trace prints from a box of pizza to a professional hit man who had gunned down a target while posing as a delivery boy. But some police complain that their computers are too slow and too undependable for routine police work. A typical computer search of the files can take more than six seconds per fingerprint and often overlooks prints that are even slightly smudged...
...more a knee- jerk political reaction than a genuine scientific critique. Indeed, some of the attacks on Star Wars come from scientists whose work has nothing to do with space technology. Contends James Ionson, the astrophysicist who heads SDIO's Innovative Science and Technology Office: "The only ones who complain about money being thrown around are those who are not in the way of the money...