Word: complained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that time, Harvard police broke up parties at Leverett, Lowell, Kirkland, Currier, Mather and Adams Houses "because someone called to complain about overcrowded rooms or excessive noise," Johnson said last week...
Some criticize the machinery of her welfare state, with its lengthy waits for elective surgery and its vibrant black market manned by people dodging heavy taxes. Voters who are struggling under her austere economic policies complain of her largesse to Third World countries -- one of the highest per capita foreign aid budgets in the world. "We are world champions at solving other countries' problems," charges the right-wing Progress Party leader Carl Hagen. "We behave as though we are a superpower...
...country's ethnic strife will take more than a few dismissals. How does Moscow satisfy the growing hunger for self-rule in the republics without aggrieving the large numbers of local Russians? In Estonia, where Russians and other minorities comprise 40% of the 1.7 million population, the Russians complain that personal snubs abound. Alexander Yashugin, a decorated World War II veteran who lives in a suburb of Tallinn, said an Estonian shopkeeper refused to let him register to buy a TV set, and would not even put him on a waiting list. "On the front, they didn't discriminate between...
Government critics can't complain this time. That's something no one could have told Clancy, and it makes the book a worthwhile diversion for anyone with a few hours to spare...
...speech last week, Bush called for even more drug testing. But some legal scholars complain that random drug testing of all employees, whether or not they are suspected of using illegal substances, disregards the venerable notion of "probable cause" -- that a search can be triggered only by a well- founded suspicion of criminal action by a particular individual. "When you start saying a search satisfies the Fourth Amendment even though it's not based on any focused suspicion at all, you've ripped the heart out of the Fourth Amendment," insists University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar...