Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...survived the socialist regime, and the middle-to upper-level government employees. They have the pay packets to travel and to buy their luxuries on the black market. But they cannot get uncensored news, and miss "most of all an open society," as one said last week. They freely complain that their life was better in the long-gone days of King Farouk, blame Nasser for dragging them into a war in Yemen that was none of Egypt's concern, and were for the first time convinced, by the 1967 war, that Israel is their real enemy. With little...
Financial leaders are particularly worried because the interest rates on Eurodollars have been rising with alarming speed. They jumped from 7% in December to a record 10% last week on three-month loans. Economic policymakers complain that the rise is leading to an unwanted worldwide increase in interest costs...
...Nixon administration is asking for $900 million this year for development of two of the twelve proposed ABM sites. ABM critics, complain, however, that the total cost of the system would be about $13 billion...
...small investor in Europe, the rule has long been to put up and shut up. He could buy a company's stock, but for him to complain about the company's management was not done. No wonder, therefore, that last week Giorgio Valerio, chairman of Italy's Montecatini Edison, was in a state of shock. At the annual meeting of Italy's largest private company, the long-frustrated small stockholders angrily showered Valerio with a mixed barrage of small coins, epithets and crumpled copies of the company balance sheet. Their urgent message was that...
Other U.N. Plaza residents complain that the glare through the windows hurts their eyes (some have taken to wearing sunglasses indoors), and that their parties are dreadfully dull: the guests all just stand around, staring out. Joyce Susskind gets glassy-eyed when she recalls the day she walked naked from her shower, looked out of her windows-and saw a window washer looking in. Stunned, Mrs. Susskind "just sat on the bed and stared. I'll never forget his face -and I'm sure he'll never forget mine...