Word: complained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exchange I am expected to be loyal, obedient, circumspect and addicted to unpaid overtime. A former boss of mine told me, in a moment of undue confidence, that a divorced woman with a child is the ideal employee; she can't quit and she can't complain...
Jewish leaders fear that their cause is not being properly represented. Middle East diplomacy, they complain, is in the hands of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and his assistant William Quandt, a specialist in Palestinian affairs. Brzezinski is thought to be pro-Arab-perhaps unfairly-by some supporters of Israel because he was one of the authors of a 1975 Brookings report calling for Israel's withdrawal to its 1967 borders. The two Jewish aides closest to Carter, Domestic Policy Assistant Stuart Eizenstat and White House Counsel Robert Lipshutz, are not considered sufficiently attuned to the Jewish community...
...century ago, as described by Novelist Evelyn Waugh in his hilarious classic Scoop. To officials of modern-day African nations, as well as those of other developing countries of the so-called Third World, not enough has changed since Waugh's day. Western coverage of their affairs, they complain, is cursory, colored by colonialist idioms and preoccupied with corruption, political turmoil and natural disaster...
...those officials are doing more than just complain. At various international conferences over the past few years, Third World nations have mounted a coordinated attack on the activities of the Western-based news organizations that transmit most of the world's news. The stated aim of this "developmental journalism" campaign is to make information better serve the developing countries' plans for economic growth and, as one oft-heard slogan has it, "decolonialize the news." "The West still regards the Afro-Asian countries as inferior," says Indian Publisher Asoke Sarkar. "You do not understand...
Play in Peoria. They also complain that the Western press completely overlooks Third World news of importance to Third World readers-which means that, because Western news organizations dominate the international flow of information, such news often goes unreported. "If a new steel mill is built in Mexico, that fact is very newsworthy in Mexico," says Roger Tatarian, professor of journalism at the University of California's Fresno campus. "It is not necessarily of much interest in Peoria...