Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invisible Stealth warplanes can hide in the sky, thanks in part to special materials and chemical coatings that do not reflect radar pulses. But these materials make workers ill -- or so claim scores of employees at Lockheed's Burbank, Calif., plant, home of Stealth. In a lawsuit, the workers complain that a panoply of ailments -- rashes, aches and pains, nausea, memory loss -- is being caused by unknown toxic agents in Stealth materials. Lockheed vice president John Brizendine insists that "we have seen nothing to indicate the materials we work with . . . pose a health hazard, providing proper procedures are followed." Nonetheless...
This week we present you a special issue that illuminates a city we all often take for granted. We complain that we never see Boston or take advantage of all that it has to offer, when all it takes is 60 cents to transport ourselves to a universe beyond the petty confines of academia. Our bold reporters ventured forth into the parts of Boston that you have always wondered about and some that you may never want to see. They returned with the thrill-packed accounts you are about to read...
...independent genius' who by 'private enterprise' had succeeded where socialism failed in getting the press to take some sympathetic interest in the conditions of London's East End." Recalling Shaw's epistolary romance with actress Ellen Terry, he quotes a vintage bit of Shavian grumping: "Let those who may complain that it was all on paper remember that only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love." Describing the tergiversations that led up to the marriage, Holroyd trenchantly observes, "Politically, Shaw had put his faith in the power of words to inspire action...
While the law students concede that the $20 million in additions and renovations being made to the library, classrooms and administration offices are necessary, they complain that the work has reduced the value of their education...
...American public, Kalb said, is largely bored by in-depth news analyses although it criticizes superficial reporting. "Documentaries are done--but you don't watch them. The very same people who complain about...superficial reporting are the very ones who are not watching the documentaries when they come...