Word: complained
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...laudable desire of the courts to protect the rights of suspected criminals has long been a sore point with victims of crime, who complain that no such solicitude has been extended to them. Today organizations supporting victims' rights are sprouting up across the country. More than 400 victims advocacy groups have been set up to advise those who have been hurt by crime and to seek legislation to help them. In most states victims, like other witnesses, are frequently barred from the courtroom to prevent their testimony from being influenced by the proceedings. This "witness sequestration" rule, says Florida State...
Flaubert "died little more than a hundred years ago, and all that remains of him is paper," observes Braithwaite. "Paper, ideas, phrases, metaphors, structured prose which turns into sound. This, as it happens, is precisely what he would have wanted; it's only his admirers who sentimentally complain." Braithwaite makes a doughty admirer indeed: zealous, dogged, properly crazed. His particular madeleine, his key to the past, is a stuffed green parrot he discovers in a Flaubert museum in Rouen. The author borrowed a stuffed bird while he was writing A Simple Heart, in which a parrot is the last object...
Mulroney is aware that improved relations with the U.S. carry political risk. Canadians are ambivalent about U.S. power: they complain that when America is not pushing them around, it is ignoring them. But the Prime Minister has indicated that the risk is one he is willing to take. In economic terms, certainly, improved relations could pay off handsomely for both countries...
Maria, 49, an engineer, leaning against a park bench: "I didn't know Chernenko was this ill. I thought he had asthma or something. I live in a four-room apartment with my husband. We have a dacha and a government car, so I have nothing to complain of about Chernenko. I look forward to a quiet pension with no stresses...
HARVARD BLACK student leaders have said that many Black students have experienced unnecessary police stops and have been followed to their dorm rooms by patrol cars because their color makes them seem suspect to some Harvard police. But in most cases the students do not complain because they think nothing will be accomplished. A questionnaire devised to assess minority relations with University police will soon be handed out to Currier House students. But poor to this the only evidence of minority problems with the police has been formal complaints by a few isolated individuals...