Word: complain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Europe, saying bon voyage under a Red star is no longer a novelty. Western companies sending cargo overseas have also jumped aboard cut- rate Soviet ships. Their governments have been slow to respond to the Soviet merchants' tactics. The Japanese, the Australians and several West European nations complain that the Soviets have broken understandings on shipping policies and rates. None, however, has found a means to enforce the pacts. For now, maritime nations seem likely to find that ships flying the Hammer and Sickle are an increasingly dominant presence in their ports...
...other incentives to workers if warranted by profits. In Poland, some 75% of farming is in private hands, as are some small restaurants and shops. But never before has a Communist state challenged the tenets of Marxist economics as fundamentally as has Deng's China. Soviet officials may complain that the Chinese have "gone too far," but such criticism leaves the reformers undeterred. Says a Chinese party leader: "We should never regard Marx's theory as some kind of immutable, sacred and inviolable thing...
...flash and dash of Miami Vice has not been universally welcomed. Some critics have objected that the show makes violence alluring by dressing it up in pretty photography; others complain that coherent stories and fully drawn characters have been junked in favor of visual flourishes and a rock beat. Some of the show's creators admit there is a certain laxness about narrative matters. Says Lee Katzin, who earned an Emmy nomination for his direction of the episode Cool Runnin': "The show is written for an MTV audience, which is more interested in images, emotions and energy than plot...
What that means is that she and newly appointed Administrative GSAS Dean John B. Fox Jr. '59 will have to look into why enrollment at the school has dropped 60 percent during the last decade, why graduate students perennially complain that Harvard doesn't have enough teaching fellowships or housing for them, and why the GSAS needs more money--and lots of it. These problems are just the tip of the GSAS iceberg...
Student enrollments have shown a slight upturn in the past few years, but the student-faculty ratio remains low. Some departments complain that they have too few students to sustain their research and seminars, the Strauch Committee reported. In order to remedy the imbalance, the committee recommended an increase in student admissions...