Word: complained
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...hostility to Reagan prompted San Antonio City Councilman Van Archer to complain: "There's just no way in the world I can understand how 200 women who don't shave their legs can claim to speak for the women of America." His remark suggested a poor eye for legs as well as for polls. The women of America, in every social, economic and racial group and in every geographic region, have consistently given President Reagan a poorer performance rating than have men. A New York Times/CBS News poll revealed that among Republicans the discrepancy between...
Joggers in Point Defiance Park near Asarco Inc.'s mammoth copper-smelting plant sometimes complain that they can taste the air on windless days. With 575 workers, the 80-acre smelter, operated by Asarco since 1905, pumps some $35 million annually into the Tacoma, Wash., area economy. Unfortunately, the smelter pumps out arsenic, a deadly cancer-causing poison that is released directly into the atmosphere as a byproduct of copper refining. Last week EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus announced details of a new federal air-quality standard for arsenic emissions. However, he left open a tough choice between...
...perennial area of controversy is the relations of the city with its university neighbors. Both Harvard and MIT are large landholders, but are tax exempt. They each make in-lieu-of-tax payments for the services the city provides, but Cambridge officials complain that the figures are far below what the tax base could bring in. Another sore spot is Harvard's role as landlord. The largest landlord in the city, the University's relations with tenants are sometimes strained, and some city officials complain that Harvard is unwilling to discuss the matter...
Lately, however, there have been signs that the market may be approaching saturation. Consumers are beginning to complain that without expensive printers and disc drives, many of the low-priced machines are little more than video-game players with built-in keyboards. Talmis Inc., an Oak Park, Ill., market research firm, estimates that small computers have been selling at a monthly rate of 275,000, but manufacturers have been shipping more than 450,000 a month...
...Jewish heritage, and who wrote a novel about the search for a vocation only to find, at the end of seven volumes, that his intended career was as a writer in search of a vocation. The other contradictions also have a strange consistency: in September of 1899 I complain to you that "I'm so horrified at the way the money slips away that I don't dare go out any more"; yet four months later, Anatole France scolds me for my extravagance in sending him "an admirable and extremely costly Rubens drawing." I claim, legitimately...