Word: complained
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...students complain about their preferences, but we want everybody to get a room this September," he said...
...Eizenstat's influence with the President. Says White House Press Secretary Jody Powell: "In the past, Cabinet people have tried to undercut Stu. But now the word is out that this sort of thing just doesn't make it any more." Still, a few Administration officials complain that Eizenstat often looks at issues mostly from a short-range political viewpoint. Last week several economic advisers were grumbling that he is too deeply involved in economic policy. He took some courses in economics at college but majored in political science. His critics were particularly angry with him for helping...
People often complain that it takes the police too long to answer calls for help. Last week, however, the Justice Department released a report suggesting that victims of crime may be just as responsible for such delays. The study, conducted by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration in Kansas City, Mo., showed that for 1,000 victims of major felonies, it took a median time of 6 min. 17 sec. to call the police. Many victims were said to have telephoned other people, investigated the crime scene themselves or called a private security guard before summoning police. The survey also cited...
These differences help explain the bitter quarreling that broke out among B.C.O.A. members after the United Mine Workers voted down their contract offer two weeks ago. The association is dominated by its biggest members, and many of the small owners complain that the B.C.O.A.'S initial hard-line approach to the bargaining was set by large operators who wanted to break the union. Said the owner of a tiny mine in western Pennsylvania: "The big boys ran the B.C.O.A. show, no matter what we thought. They realized that [U.M.W. President] Arnold Miller was weak and a little dumb...
Television, some argue, is in the business of being dimwitted. It often presents just as distorted a picture of whites as of blacks. Does it make sense to complain about the unreality of black characters when whites on TV have for years been implicated in such efforts as The Flying Nun and The Love Boat...