Word: complained
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Before the Beanpot Finals, writers who were not familiar with Harvard this season were warned a head of time about a defense that was somewhat suspect. But after Harvard won that game not one of them could see anything to complain about. The defense improved tremendously after that tourney, as the players were making smarter clearing passes along the boards and weren't getting caught out of position (as often...
...point forced oil companies that had supplies sufficient to run their refineries at more than 76% of capacity to sell the "excess" to competitors who had less, at low Government-mandated prices. Rather than do so, FEO officials believe, some oil companies slashed imports. Some Government officials complain that weeks passed between FEO'S discovery of a decline in imports and Simon's decision to order needed changes in the program. One economist at the Council of Economic Advisers grumbles, "There was great reluctance to bite the bullet...
While the $230 million wage package is more than twice the original government offer, the Tories can hardly complain. On the same day that he called the election, Heath ordered the Pay Board to study the miners' case and promised to abide by its recommendations. Last week the board proposed wage hikes of up to 30%-almost what the miners had demanded and within $2.3 million of the final settlement. The increases will raise miners' wages in the lowest category from $58.17 a week to $73.60 and in the highest bracket from...
...characters were about impossible to get into at all." Part of the problem apparently is the pace. Both Coppola's script and Clayton's direction treat Fitzgerald reverentially, giving each scene almost equal emphasis. Another problem, surprising in a Coppola script, is wooden dialogue. Several viewers complain that the actors cannot speak long stretches of straight Fitzgerald prose convincingly. Unfortunately, the chief victims seem to be Redford and Farrow...
Many of the handicapped, for whom a car is a pair of legs, complain that under those conditions they cannot buy enough gas to get around. Garrett Oppenheim, whose legs are crippled, figures that he can continue to drive 20 miles from his home in Rockland County, N.Y., to his job as an editor for Medical Economics magazine in Oradell, N.J., but otherwise, if the shortage continues, "I'd be stranded. No shopping, no errands, no visits." He finds that a threat not only to his mobility but to his self-respect. "After I got a hand-controlled...