Word: complained
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...Useful Purpose. Exposure to a drug may sensitize a patient and cause a dangerous allergic reaction on the next exposure. But, the California authors complain, it may do no good for the doctor to ask a patient whether he has previously had a reaction to a certain drug. "Patients are commonly unaware of what medication they receive, multiple irrational drug mixtures abound, and memories tend to be much less persistent than antibody-forming capacity." Reaction to penicillin injections cause an estimated 100 deaths annually in the U.S. What is most tragic about these deaths, say Kalman and his colleagues...
...department sees the values of the Bill of Rights as no more than obstacles to be overcome. There seems to be a single-minded effort to cut the crime rate, with little sense of the constraints of the Constitution." Some of Mitchell's critics also complain that his background as a Wall Street expert on municipal bonds-about as far removed from criminal practice or civil rights as a lawyer can get-was not the best preparation for the Government's chief legal office...
...though, are sure to come in future years. It is dubious that Americans will be able to maintain any real interest in the space program. That is not to say of course that they won't stop pumping money into it, while the more earthbound among us continue to complain that the money should be spent elsewhere. (They forget the quite fundamental point that, like smalltown high schools that spend all the money they pick up during booster drives on athletic facilities instead of curriculum reform, America will always turn to diversionary money drains rather than concentrate on essential problems...
...committees, the big white farmers got as large a cotton allotment as they wanted while the Negroes, usually with much smaller farms, had to make it all balance by having their allotments shaved. Often Negroes are tenant farmers on a white man's land; so if they tried to complain, call in surveyors, and that sort of thing, the white man would kick them off his land. Evicted negro farmers would band together and live in "tent cities" with only patchwork canvas for shelter, and they'd slowly starve...
Double Injustice. Though the Japanese complain about the injustice of textile quotas, they maintain a closed-door policy at home, shutting out considerable amounts of U.S. goods and capital. Two years ago, a committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reported that "no other advanced country confronts the foreign investor with the sort of obstacles presented by Japan...