Word: complained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Night Shift. Most Wall Street firms have abandoned their traditional 9-to-5 day, working clerical staffs overtime and Saturdays, often hiring night shifts to help with the load. Even with newly instituted training programs, brokers complain that they cannot find enough qualified help, though able receiving and billing clerks often earn $200 a week. "Clerical workers no longer apply for a job," says Vice President Charles Rosenthal of L. M. Rosenthal & Co. "They come over for coffee and doughnuts and discuss their careers...
...October demonstrations opened things up. Students began to look into what their universities were doing. They began to complain and criticize. Something was building...
Ironically, criticism of the Joint Center is aimed not at the barely useful historical studies, but at the most obviously utilitarian ones--the evaluative studies of race, housing, education, and welfare programs. Critics typically complain that although these studies deal with immediate problems, they do so in a descriptive and speculative way; they define issues and propose solutions without giving and concrete and tangible assistance...
...paper that many call it the Daily Brian. Weiss allows that he has "always been a wise-ass ? only my vocabulary has improved." He has called California Governor Ronald Reagan "a liar" for manipulating university financial figures to justify budget cuts, and tells matrons of Westwood who complain about obscenity in Bruin reviews: "If you don't like it, don't read it, lady." Despite such brashness, one of his frequent targets, U.C.L.A. Chancellor Franklin Murphy, praises Weiss as a conscientious editor who has made the paper "a provocative and enzymatic force on the campus." A tightly packed bundle...
When she started scouting for loans to finance a community-owned supermarket early last year, Harlem's Cora T. Walker could hardly complain about discrimination. White banks, local antipoverty agencies and well-to-do Negroes were equally uninterested. "We had no assets and no balance sheets," she explains, "and my board of directors couldn't give any personal guarantees." But before long, Miss Walker and the 16-member board of the Harlem River Consumers Cooperative found a hidden asset-in the fact that the people they were trying to help were willing to help themselves...