Word: complain
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Pharmacy shelves are bare, even of common-cold remedies. Doctors complain about shortages of antibiotics and approximately 200 other medications, ranging from simple Mercurochrome to sophisticated cancer and heart drugs. Aspirin has been rationed to 20 pills per person per year (40 pills for Havana residents, no doubt because of urban stress). About 10% of Cuba's 10.7 million people suffer from asthma, but asthma inhalers are almost impossible to obtain. Even such rudimentary supplies as sutures, syringes and surgical gloves are scarce, as are anesthetics. "We haven't had a simple cotton bandage to put under children's plaster...
While consumers rejoiced, the cable industry griped that the regulations took away the incentive to add new programming to their basic service -- those packages of channels offered for a flat monthly fee. The regulations allow systems to pass along the cost of new channels plus 7.5%, but cable operators complain that the percentage is too small to make carrying such channels worth it. Hence few new channels on basic cable. "In regulating the industry," contends Carter Maguire, executive vice president of sales for Turner Cable Network, "the FCC has paralyzed...
Edwards now suffers from negative ratings of about 63% and yet another investigation. Though not a target himself, he has testified before a Baton Rouge grand jury looking into favoritism in the awarding of gaming licenses for riverboat gambling. His critics also complain that his four children, all of whom have pursued business opportunities with the state's newly legalized casinos, were in a position to gain from his success in pushing legalized casino gaming through the legislature last year...
...closing the book on Radcliffe would be taking away all the fun. The men who fear Radcliffe would have no reason to complain, no response for the women who think Radcliffe is fine as it is. Destroying the Radcliffe Myth would be like admitting that conservatives aren't as oppressed as they like to claim. Once liberated, what would they find to talk about...
Harvard women, for the most part, are through with oppression--and they're too busy rowing crew or directing musicals or writing for newspapers to complain about their victim status. They know that regardless of whether our diplomas say "Harvard" or "Radcliffe" or "Harvard-Radcliffe", we all suffered through the same boring speeches on plagiarism, and we all had to eat the same institutional food...