Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion for agriculture out of the budget. I plan to remodel the house this year with the money I get for not growing grain. Last yesx I got a new car. As long as the taxpayer is too lazy to write his representatives and complain, I will continue to take advantage...
...newspapers is affecting businessmen who never advertise and never thought they depended on newspapers. Parking garages, restaurants, stationery and record shops all miss the patronage of the suburbanites usually drawn into the city for a day by the ads of the big department stores and theaters. New York florists complain that they are losing trade because a public without obituaries and sailing notices does not know when to send flowers. Hotel rentals of banquet halls to wedding parties have fallen sharply because there are no engagement announcements to alert them to prospects. The lack of job promotion news is making...
...earnings reports showed encouraging proof that the profit squeeze can be successfully overcome-and added substance to business's expectations of a 10% overall profit increase in 1963. Almost without exception, the brightest examples among the new earnings were recorded by businesses that were not content simply to complain about the profit squeeze, but concentrated on doing something about...
...course, sings Spanish music more beautifully than de los Angeles, and it seems hardly fair to complain that Nin's El pano murciano is not an especially interesting song when she is warbling her way through it. The encores included the inevitable Clavelitos, but some members of the audience were clearly disappointed that de los Angeles chose to omit Adios Granada, a flamenco which she sings to her own guitar accompaniment. They need not have been; it is not every exam period after all, that brings with it a concert by the soprano with the world's loveliest voice...
...public acceptance of the restyled 1963 Classics and Ambassadors that Abernethy predicts the company will sell 550,000 cars in 1963, an increase of more than 25% over last year. But even if American Motors does not do better in 1963 than in 1962, no one is apt to complain very loudly: reporting last week on the final three months of 1962, AMC announced that its profits for the quarter had jumped 32%, to $12 million, and that sales ($315 million) were the highest for any quarter in the company's history...