Word: complained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALOT of people complain about social life at Harvard. The women complain about the men. The men complain about the women. And everybody complains about the stuffy, uptight and strung out atmosphere which pervades the campus...
Hikers who venture into the Grand Canyon complain that the park's majestic tranquillity is too often disturbed by the buzz of airplanes overhead. Last week the National Park Service announced restrictions on aircraft that it hopes will satisfy both environmentalists and backpackers as well as so-called flightseers. The plan, ordered by Congress, designates four flight-free zones, totaling 530,000 acres over which aircraft cannot fly at less than 7,000 ft. above the canyon rim. Between the restricted zones are several corridors where aircraft can ferry tourists. The plan also bans flights below the canyon...
...been anything but weak in criticizing Margaret Thatcher's treatment of the poor. The essay was excoriated as an exercise of "anonymous, gutless malice" by one furious bishop. "Scurrilous," snapped the realm's No. 2 churchman, Archbishop of York John Habgood. York had his own reason to complain: he and Runcie were yoked in condemnation by Crockford's. In fact, the essay was seen as a bid to derail the liberal Habgood, 60, as a successor to Runcie, 66, who many expect will vacate the see of Canterbury after presiding over a meeting of the world's Anglican bishops next...
...these singles. "I have a hard time finding a common bond in our room. But [the FDO] succeeded if they were trying to be diverse. We're learning to deal with each other's space and how to put up with each other. We're growing. I can't complain...
...exciting insurance-exchange headquarters designed by Richard Rogers. The structure is designed around a soaring, 240-ft. atrium and, recalling Rogers' 1977 Pompidou Center in Paris, its elevators and its plumbing, heating and air-conditioning ducts are exposed on the outside. The building has its champions, but many underwriters complain of a lack of light, proper ventilation and heating. Lloyd's plans to redesign parts of the interior...