Word: complained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is certainly true. Inflation is running at 85% per year, the currency is practically worthless, and many staples are almost unobtainable. Ugandans do not complain lest they receive a visit from Amin's public safety unit, a corps of goons in dark glasses who, as a Ugandan exile put it, "specialize in making people disappear-permanently." For those who disappear only temporarily, there is the prospect of torture: Kampala abounds with tales of prisoners who have been buried to their necks in cesspools, forced to beat comrades to death or compelled to engage in cannibalism. Shopkeepers accused...
...public's purchasing power over the past year, while rising unemployment has also cut deeply into sales. The jobless rate stood at 7.1% in December, and it may turn out to be close to 8% for January, when the latest figures are released this week. Many automen complain that the Ford Administration stuck to an anti-inflation policy too long; they are pleased that the Administration has tilted policy more toward expansion, but wonder whether it has gone far enough...
Still Dismal. Sharply skidding car sales have played a major part in tipping the economy into its present deep recession. Production cutbacks have closed 20 auto plants; almost 300,000 workers-one-fifth of the industry's total-have been laid off. Automen complain that sales have been depressed by shrinking consumer confidence caused largely by Washington's inability to cope with the nation's inflation, recession and energy crisis. Another explanation comes from Auto Analyst Alfred Nelson of the Wall Street brokerage house of Cyrus J. Lawrence. Says he: "The sticker price went up an average...
...futile. Iran is a police state. Agents of SAVAK--the secret police--sit in virtually every university classroom. Frances Fitzgerald, well-known investigative journalist, reports in Harper's Magazine how "professors are fired or arrested for expressing independent views, and students are arrested or shot for demonstrating." Foreign professors complain that Iranian University degrees are comparable to high school diplomas in developed countries. The existing Teheran affiliate of the Harvard Business School gets its share of the bad marks, too. Part of the funds for it were raised at Iranian "charity functions," where members of the royal family lined...
...pirate stations are sprayed so widely across the medium-range radio frequencies that they have become a communications hazard. In Donetsk, many of the illegal transmitters were on the frequency of the railway switching station of this important industrial center. On the inland Sea of Azov, riverboat skippers complain that they cannot hear routing orders because of interference by Elvis Presley tapes. Judged even more hazardous, however, were the broadcasts of an operator in Vilna, Lithuania, who has been sentenced to three years in prison for "anti-Soviet agitation." His crime: retransmitting Western newscasts taped from a short-wave receiver...