Word: complained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guilty by reason of insanity,* the twelve Washington men and women were indeed pinioned in the spotlight of press attention. Reporters and TV crews were waiting when they arrived home. Several found the coverage so noisome that they temporarily moved out. Two others took the opportunity to complain publicly that they had been pressured into agreeing to the verdict. Eager journalists flew one of them to New York City and Boston for TV shows. Recalls Juror Maryland Copelin: "I did just about every radio show there is. I didn't know there were so many of them...
...Detroit reaction among automakers ranged from cautious silence by General Motors to the assertion by a Chrysler Corp. official that there is "absolutely no way" in which the firm can equip its cars with the devices by 1983. Some automen complain as well that they have been caught in a pointless "protect against self syndrome, in which hundreds of millions of dollars may now have to be spent redesigning, retooling and testing to equip their cars with seat belts and air bags that drivers do not particularly want in the first place. Says Roger Maugh, director of auto safety...
Silicon Valley chipmakers complain that they fell behind in the 64K competition because Japanese firms benefited from relatively cheap bank loans (as low as 6% vs. about 16% in the U.S.) and government aid for research and development. Moreover, the Americans say, such large and diversified companies as Hitachi (1981 sales: $15 billion) and Nippon Electric ($5 billion) could afford to forgo profits on memory chips in order to undercut competitors. In the jargon of foreign trade, Japan has allegedly "dumped" chips in the U.S. market at a price lower than production costs...
...Ezra Pound's bloodless hero did not merely suffer from the disease of his age; he was the disease of his age, mute until it was too late, sensitive only for No. 1, fatally solipsistic to the end. As catastrophe beckons, the Duchess of Windsor is heard to complain: "We are led into the light and shown such marvels as one cannot tell . . . and then they turn out all the lights and hit you with a baseball bat." Findley does not relinquish the bat, but in this ambitious, disturbing book, the lights never go off for an instant...
...antiaircraft guns and tank engines. In the meantime, Washington remained silent while Israel sold Iran an estimated $120 million worth of military hardware, including spare parts and ammunition for Iran's American-made equipment, which had been acquired during the rule of the Shah. Nor did the U.S. openly complain that the Israelis were sending experts to Tehran to help the Iranians use their American-made weapons...