Word: complained
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...faculty think Silber is reasonable? Apparently not, given their repeated attempts to oust him. Why then should students try to engage in reasonable discourse with the man or his administration? Silber has proven again and again that he doesn't respect students' right to free speech; faculty members complain that he fires dissenters in their ranks. What could dialogue produce with a man who doesn't want to hear the other side...
...many of the houses off, often at cut-rate prices. The sales have stirred strong protests in Denver, where the average price of a single-family home has fallen from $139,500 in the second quarter of 1987 to $117,900 in the same period this year. Denver builders complain that HUD, by selling single-family homes in Denver for as little as $5,500, has contributed to the decline of the area's housing market. The agency itself is upset that some people have been defaulting on their FHA loans, then buying bargain houses at HUD auctions...
Although many people complain about local government and many communities face "social deterioration," Johnson said, "you would be surprised how little input we get from the public in local government...
...highly overrated in a President. If Eisenhower (perhaps) or Franklin Roosevelt (for sure) needed the company of a mistress or John Kennedy a procession of bimbettes to help him relax, the better to carry on his stewardship of the country, I'm not sure that the country ought to complain. A + wife certainly has the right to, but the electorate is paying for a chief executive, not a spouse...
...Serbs complain that the Kosovo Albanians have launched a campaign of terror and rape to drive them out of the heavily Albanian province. Says Radomir Smiljanic, a well-known Serbian writer: "The harassment of women has become so common that Serbs have to accompany their wives and daughters to work and school." Officials in Kosovo vehemently deny the charges, and non- Serbs elsewhere agree they have been wildly exaggerated by the Serbian press...