Word: complained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Iranians, meanwhile, complain bitterly about the Carter human rights campaign, which they feel has spurred on the opposition that now threatens the survival of the Shah. There is scarce evidence that the human rights policy significantly influenced the outbreak of dissent in Iran, but the official perception?and resentment?is very real...
Three years after the worst antibusing acrimony, South Boston High School, now 41% black, opened peacefully. Suspensions have dropped from 1,800 in 1976 to 275 last year. An intensive school-within-a-school system helps coach slow learners. But achievement scores are still way down, and critics complain that teacher are mainly "peacemakers and babysitters." Says Mary Ellen Smith of the City-wide Education Coalition, a probusing group: "The issue in Boston is no longer where kids go to school or the race o their classmates, but whether the public schools can offer a quality education.' That issue...
...number of local critics complain that the refurbished market is squeezing out local merchants and residents and replacing them with chic boutique-type shops. Others argue that the markets should have been restored accurately to their 19th century appearance. But Thompson's wife and associate, Jane, rejects what she calls "a Williamsburg mentality, where you have people in costumes catering to tourists." She adds: "We wanted the complex to be economically vital. If you get too many tourists coming through, they discourage the residents and then the merchants start selling little trinkets. You can't support a place...
Republican Governor Robert Bennett, 51, brushed aside two token primary opponents. Even Republicans, however, complain that he does not seem to be much of a Kansan with his beard and his officious manner. He is also under attack for the rise in property taxes. But his Democratic opponent, John Carlin, 38, the boyish-looking speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives, is still relatively unknown in a state where Republicans out-number Democrats three...
While Treu was being secretly tried this spring, the Canadian government used the Official Secrets Act for the first time against a newspaper, prosecuting the Toronto Sun for disclosing a top-secret Mountie report on Soviet espionage. Critics complain that the Sun, a persistent right-wing gadfly to the Trudeau government, is being charged not with spilling secrets but with revealing government ineptness at dealing with Soviet spies...