Word: complain
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...offers a range of alternatives. Clear plastic braces, available for the past ten years, have made orthodontics more palatable to adults, who now account for 20% of the braces business. "Invisible," or lingual, braces, which are applied to the backs of teeth, are even less conspicuous, though some users complain of tongue irritation and mild speech problems...
...Boston, the charmingly urban South Street Seaport in New York and several lesser-known charmingly urban shopping-and- eating entities. These profitable developments are distinctly funk free, but they are not ugly. If it takes an artificial heart to save a dying downtown, as Harborplace probably saved Baltimore, why complain? The problem is programmed quaintness: Ghirardelli Square was a revelation 20 years ago, a copy or two elsewhere were great, a few more were fine, O.K.; but when every second downtown in the U.S. gets cheerfully Roused, the formula starts to pall. A pleasurable urban experience ought not to depend...
Lawyers for the victims contend that Robins knew the Dalkon Shield could be dangerous long before the company stopped selling it. They also complain that Robins refused to alert women who were still wearing the device to have it removed. It was not until last year that the company finally ran full-page newspaper and magazine ads that warned women of the Dalkon Shield's risks and offered to pay the doctor's fee for having it taken out. To this day, though, Robins maintains that the Dalkon Shield is just as safe as any other IUD when properly inserted...
What that means is that she and newly appointed Administrative GSAS Dean John B. Fox Jr. '59 will have to look into why enrollment in 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...