Word: complained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second term in 1984, they pointedly avoid mentioning Vice-President George Bush as a running mate." Noted as well: "The sort of opponent that Ted Kennedy's aides fear most in his 1982 race for re-election [is] a conservative Catholic woman." And this: "Reagan White House officials complain that Carter's order to hold down spending on maintenance of government offices left many quarters in shabby condition. Shocked newcomers report finding everything from dirty window blinds to basketball marks on the walls...
Speculum's predilection for one school has, however, had a beneficial effect. Composers complain that the second performance of a new work is harder to get than the first; pieces are often commissioned, played once and then forgotten. Although Speculum presents many premieres, it has also tried to give good music a chance to catch on. Certain pieces -Carter's A Mirror on Which to Dwell, Wuorinen's Speculum Speculi and Martino's Pulitzer-prizewinning Notturno-are played fairly frequently...
...least bad diplomatic manners: it startled and dismayed more than 1,000 delegates from 159 countries who lad hoped to wrap up at last a treaty that las been under negotiation for seven years. The treaty is not necessarily doomed. It is opposed by U.S. mining interests, which complain that it does not assure them access to seabed minerals, but favored by the Pentagon because it allows fleets to sail unhindered through narrow straits...
...fastest growing cities in the Middle East. Skyscrapers sprout from the desert landscape. Building cranes bristle across the horizon. Multi-lane highways and ringroads girdle the cities. Old neighborhoods change dramatically in a matter of weeks; new ones spring up overnight. The din of traffic and construction, residents complain, makes it virtually impossible to sleep after...
American businessmen also complain that the complex law keeps them out of many profitable deals. Says Robert Malott, chairman of Chicago's FMC Corp., a leading manufacturer of chemicals and machinery (1980 sales: $3.5 billion): "The law has American export companies thoroughly confused. We simply cannot get clarification on what is legal and what...