Word: complained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detailing the charges, the Justice Department named seven AMREP officers and directors, including Chairman Irving Blum, 73, President Howard Friedman, 50, his brother Daniel, 40, and Chester Carity, 50, an AMREP executive vice president. In response, the indicted firm has launched a p.r. blitz protesting its innocence. AMREP officials complain that the charges are "immoral and unjust." They insist that they have spent more than $34 million improving the land...
Earlier this fall, as tension was mounting in the University police force over stalemated contract talks with Harvard, a number of patrolmen staged a protest at the personnel office to complain against an alleged violation of their old contract by police chief David L. Gorski...
...that Paul's remarks may hurt Joan Little. An appeals court is expected to rule next month on the conviction that originally put her in jail. This time around the judges will doubtless examine the case very closely to make sure that no one will be able to complain about their justice. If the conviction is ultimately upheld, Joan Little will face up to ten years in jail...
After it was all over, Librettist Giacomo Rossi did not know whether to brag or complain, and so did both. The composer, said Rossi, "scarcely gave me the time to write, and to my great wonder I saw an entire opera put to music by that surprising genius, with the greatest of perfection, in only two weeks." The genius was George Frideric Handel, then 26. The opera was Rinaldo, conceived, composed and staged for London's Haymarket Theater in 1711. Based on an epic about the Crusades by Torquato Tasso, the opera tells the story of the Christian general...
Repossessed Cars. Each day some 40 to 50 desperate people telephone "Call for Action," a national public-interest program broadcast in Chicago by radio station WIND, to complain that they are not getting unemployment-compensation checks to which they are entitled. Some tell stories of having cars repossessed or heat cut off; others plead for aid in getting emergency food. Says Illinois Republican Senator Charles Percy: "It's the biggest snafu I've ever seen." He calls the IBES "the Bureau of Employment Insecurity...