Word: complained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...converted last year from an indoor track with a dirt floor to a basketball court with a portable astroturf covering--suffered from minor-structural problems in its first year of use. Though most athletes and coaches using the facility praise it as an excellent multi-use complex, some complain of inadequate ventilation and problems with the worn floor surface. Officials call these problems "minor" and say repairs are currently being considered...
...Closer to home, the pride disappears and we complain a whole...
...poultry inspections could be reduced, it ordered inspectors, in effect, to work harder for the same pay. Where chickens used to whiz past inspectors at 70 a minute, the line has been speeded up to as many as 105 a minute, prompting inspectors to take caffeine pills and complain about "hypnosis" from the blur of birds...
Critics of the Administration, and even some officials in the regulatory agencies, complain that OMB has become a back channel for special interests trying to get relief from proposed or existing regulations. OMB was empowered by Reagan to apply a "cost-benefit" analysis to all federal rules. It has reviewed 119 regulations already on the books, killing or revising 76 of them and proposing changes in 27 more. Of 6,700 proposed new rules, it has revised or rejected about one in nine. Its review process can take months or years, effectively putting a brake on good as well...
...level of office towers in return for permission to erect taller skyscrapers. IBM was granted the right to build five extra floors for creating a tree-filled atrium at the foot of its Madison Avenue building. But now the whole zoning program is running into serious problems. Citizen groups complain that some plazas are so poorly designed and maintained that they discourage public use. At the Harley Hotel, which is co-owned by Multimillionaire Harry Helmsley iron spikes were installed in seating areas, which kept people out of the public space. After a protest last month, the spikes were removed...