Word: complained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some students do complain about their missing cars, but most take it in stride. "I gambled and didn't make it," Christopher L. Taylor '76-3, whose car was towed Sunday night, said yesterday...
Classic Syndrome. West acknowledged to Bancroft that sometimes he found it a "significant" reflection of Patty's mental state when she protested her treatment by the S.L.A., and sometimes when she did not. Asked Bancroft incredulously: "You find it 'significant' when she does complain and 'significant' when she doesn't complain...
Like fishermen who come back emptyhanded, prosecutors and police endlessly complain about the ones who got away. Especially galling are those who escape because of legal rules: drug pushers caught dirty but without the proper search warrant, Mafiosi discovered through an illegal wiretap, thugs with guns whose car was stopped by cops acting without probable cause. In such cases, the catchall-or lose-all-complication is the exclusionary rule, which provides that evidence seized illegally may not be used in court...
City officials often complain about excessive wage demands by labor unions, but Edward A. Hanna, the may or of Utica, N.Y. (pop. 86,000), has hit on the most draconian of solutions. He cut the employees in the department of public works from 240 to 70 in 18 months after he took office...
...perfection less than two decades ago, the green-eyed deus ex machina has helped alter the course of history and changed forever the daily rhythms of white-collar life. The photocopier has, its detractors say, fostered waste, encouraged sloth, stifled creativity and punched holes in the copyright laws. Bureaucrats complain that the machine now makes confidential exchanges all but impossible; foes of official secrecy complain that fear of Xerox-abetted leaks has made bureaucrats more secretive than ever. Whatever the complaint, in view of the social, economic and moral consequences of the office copying machine, the time has plainly come...