Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Keep On the Lights. Businessmen often complain that to obtain the raw materials for these statistics the Government inundates them with federal questionnaires, and Lyndon Johnson, heedful of their pleas despite his own love for statistics, has cut out 13% of the 5,192 types of report the Government once asked of various taxpayers. Most businessmen, however, find federal statistics vital in an era when rising competition and costs are shrinking the margin for error. "If the Government's economic statistics were eliminated," says Economist Conrad Jamison of Los Angeles' Security First National Bank, "it would be like...
...course, thought the sentences much too severe. At week's end, nearly 600 agitators gathered on the campus and then marched through Berkeley to rally outside Crittenden's courtroom. They sang We Shall Over come, heard Cal professors criticize U.S. policy in Viet Nam and Savio complain about U.S. justice. Also on hand was Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg, who clanged a pair of tiny cymbals and mumbled an unintelligible, prayerlike chant. What was he trying to say? "That was a magic formula to soothe and calm the heart of the judge," Ginsberg explained...
Until recently, builders did little but complain about the problem, spent considerable amounts of money air-conditioning inside rooms at the same time they were heating outside rooms-particularly in glass-walled buildings, whose outside rooms not only lose a great deal of heat in winter but get cooked by the summer sun. Finally, in the early '60s, General Electric engineers lit upon a solution: trap the heat-light through special ducts in the lighting fixtures, pipe it to outside rooms where it is needed most. They found that whole buildings could be heated inexpensively with nothing more than...
That brought SDS official Nat Stillman '68 to his feet to remark that "I've never heard a demonstration of spontaneous irresponsibility like that speech." Stilliman said he had heard students complain about the lack of parietal hours, about long lines at the Union, and about the hours in Lamont. He wondered why no one wanted to complain...
...Damn it," Kennedy would complain to Jacqueline, according to Schlesinger, "[McGeorge] Bundy and I get more done in one day at the White House than they do in six months in the State Department." The President was impatient with the department's smothering bureaucracy, angered at its unimaginative approach to foreign policy, irked by its pedantic literary style. Once in 1963 after receiving a draft for a congressional message about a National Academy of Foreign Affairs, Kennedy bounced it with these comments: "This is only the latest and worst of a long number of drafts sent here for presidential...