Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...budget. It is the FCC that assigns frequencies to ham operators and taxi fleets, TV stations and aviation controllers. It is trying to clear the maddening interference-ridden nighttime AM radio band and the general clutter that hampered police communications during the Watts, Newark and Detroit riots. When people complain about excessive telephone or telegraph rates, or that radio-controlled garage doors are fouling up aircraft communications, or that shrimp-boat captains are uttering obscenities on ship-to-shore frequencies, it is the FCC that takes the rap. Besides all this, the FCC grapples with Comsat and community TV antenna...
...appreciate troubles with student identification (who wants 13 or 14 years olds anyway?) and the fire hazards of an overcrowded hall. But one cannot accept the "scrapping of big mixers" because some girls who just don't get asked to dance, "go back and complain to deans and parents, who, in turn, complain to us (the deans)."... Those girls that are dissatisfied just should not come back. Why should we, as Harvard undergraduates, be penalized in our social sphere because of a group of snivelling girlings who lack any social maturity to handle the situation...
...Dean Watson said, in announcing the Administration's necessary if unfortunate response, girls have greatly outnumbered boys at Harvard mixers and many have spent an entire night without anyone asking them to dance. "They go back and complain to deans and parents, who, in turn, complain to us," Watson said...
...teachers had some reason to complain that this was the wrong time to pull tight the purse strings. The average teacher salary in Florida is $6,660, which is $660 below the national norm. And while Florida is growing rapidly in population and wealth, it is actually slipping in the share of state revenue devoted to education. It ranks tenth among the states in per-capita income, but at $523 per pupil, ranks 37th in what it spends on the schools. Ten years ago the state contributed 59% of the cost of the schools; last year this had shrunk...
Meanwhile California's academic administrators complain that faculty morale is at an alltime low, worry about the steady exodus of star professors, and insist that what was once the nation's finest system of public higher education is in danger of heading to ward mediocrity. Last week John Summerskill, 42, resigned after two years as president of San Francisco State, home of one of the nation's first student-initiated "free colleges" and a campus noted for its unorthodox ways. Lamenting the "financial starvation" that faces his college, Summerskill complained that "the political leadership is tuned...