Word: complained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Except for a surge in the sale of postage stamps to collectors, the islands' economy is stagnant. Shopkeepers complain that, though they sell the troops quite a few Hong Kong-made mugs, flags and ashtrays, they made far more money from the British goods they once peddled to Argentine tourists. The Standard Chartered Bank has opened an office on Ross Road, but the capital still has no barber shop, laundry or auto-repair garage...
...heated debate, council members decided not to suspend the new procedures, prompting some to complain that the group had become a "body of rules, not a body that looks at issues," according in Quincy House representative Douglas A. Winthrop...
...strong People's Liberation Army, whose upper ranks have become a stagnant gerontocracy. The youngest of the nine men on the Central Military Commission is 70; three of its four vice chairmen, like Chairman Deng, have passed their 80th birthday. Even the People's Daily has been moved to complain that "some of our leading cadres are like document-reading machines, speaking rather than acting and just sitting there unless they get a push from above...
...Soviet blasts began last month after the U.S. denied a visa to Oleg Yermishkin, a suspected KGB agent whom the Soviets wanted to send to Los Angeles as their Olympic attache. Almost immediately, Moscow began to complain not only about the Yermishkin case but about a statement by the U.S. embassy in Moscow that Soviet athletes needed American visas rather than the special identity cards called for in the Olympic charter. Soviet newspapers denounced the "uncontrollable commercialization" of the Games and the "exorbitant" cost of the services to be provided to the teams in Los Angeles. They charged that there...
Phone-company officials report that an odd psychology appears to have devel oped among users of America's 183 million telephones. If anything goes wrong now, they blame it on divestiture. Says Illinois Bell's Patricia Montgomery: "A woman called to complain about some problems, which were caused by water seeping into the system. No amount of explaining could convince her that it was because of a wet cable, not divestiture." Another Illinois customer groused that the phone company was "driving up the cost of service," when in fact his most recent local-service bill was $21.93, only...