Word: complained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kremlin is worried he will do just that. During Cyrus Vance's mission to Moscow in April, a Russian listened with annoyance as a visitor from Washington remonstrated with him about Soviet intervention in Africa. Finally the Russian interrupted angrily: "How can you Americans complain so self-righteously about what we are doing outside your sphere of influence when you are making mischief right in our own front yard...
...country where HEW'S services are delivered, people often complain that its programs are not tailored closely enough to local needs. This has become more of a problem since Califano took away the power of the ten regional directors and re-centralized it in Washington. Too few bureaucrats, HEW'S critics claim, are rewarded for initiative. Says Robert Mollica, who deals with federal-state relations for the Governor's office in Massachusetts: "Occasionally we will find a bureaucrat who is courageous enough to interpret the spirit behind the programs rather than carrying them out to the letter whether...
Local administrators also complain that HEW tends to start programs too quickly, without giving them sufficient thought or staffing. Then the department demands fast results. Says an official in the Social Security administration in Atlanta: "The people at HEW's management level want statistics showing that large numbers of claims have been processed so they can impress Congress with what a good job they are doing. They don't care anything about quality; all they want is quantity...
Another villain is the Government itself. In the past two years, aid to farmers has quadrupled to an estimated $7.9 billion, much of it for price-propping mechanisms and subsidies. Carter's budget for next year now proposes to cut the amount to $4.2 billion. Farmers complain that they need all the federal largesse they can get because rising costs are making it hard for them to turn a profit. In that sense, they are suffering in the same way as other Americans, who also must figure out how to make ends meet as inflation devours their purchasing power...
...smashing glasses against the walls and hurling tablecloths, laden with plates and cutlery, across the room. Last year Flick and friends completely wrecked Ingo's Discotheque in a boys-will-be-boys night of carousing, which ended with a brunch of beer and white sausages. Do proprietors complain? Never. Flick, 51, is invariably accompanied by a paymaster, who covers all damages, and by a dozen stony bodyguards, who are relieved every six hours by a different dozen...