Word: complained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well, the carriers want Civil Aeronautics Board permission to boost their fares even higher, arguing plausibly that operating costs are still rising faster than revenues. The major lines, which complain that Government has dragged its feet on granting fare hikes, have recently won a 3% across-the-board increase, and last week all but Delta were back in Washington seeking a further 2% rise. More rate-boost requests are almost certain. Eastern Chief Frank Borman figures that fares will have to go up at least another 6% this year "to get us back toward a reasonable 12% return on investment...
...dusk-to-dawn curfew risk being shot on sight. The Smith government says the camps are to protect the tribes from terrorist intimidation. But many of the inhabitants are considered security risks and the camps are intended to prevent them from feeding and aiding the guerrillas. Meanwhile, the tribespeople complain, their farms have been left to ruin and their cattle...
...about issues pertaining to their welfare while non-academic employees cannot do so without suffering reprisals? Why are workers such as myself and Paul Trudel of Central Copy Services treated so badly because we believe in bettering our working conditions and our lives? Why do most workers only complain about their gripes in private, afraid to exercise their constitutional right to free speech in public...
...mind Dean Martin, among others. Maybe it's that Jimmy Buffett is settling down--he's been in love for two years now with a woman named variously "Miss Jane," J. Slagsvol, and Jane--he co-wrote two songs on the album with her. He's beginning to complain about playing country music, as in "Kick It in Second Wind," when it's one o'clock in the morning and the audience is screaming for more, "Somebody's locked in the bathroom and the manager's lost the key/I pity that man, but from where I stand, it looks like...
...furor over Marubeni's role in the Lockheed scandal has intensified, the social status of its employees has plummeted. Many workers complain that their families are being shunned or ridiculed because they work for Marubeni. One employee said that his child was nicknamed "Lockheed" by his schoolmates; another complained that his son's teacher displayed a picture of a Marubeni executive in the classroom, labeling it "dangerous villain." Some wives of Marubeni workers have taken to shopping at night to avoid the cold stares of neighbors. Perhaps most insulting of all, Tokyo's Crown Record Company...