Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Critics complain that Harvard makes excessive demands on city residents because while it gives many of them jobs, it also raises the cost of living in Cambridge. Even those city officials who have bitterly criticized the University concede that Harvard contributes prestige and jobs to the community, as well as indirect economic boosts that have grown from practical applications of its research...
While some seniors complain that the policy was not publicized, Anderson said it was announced through flyers in the houses and in the senior week information booklet...
...Others complain that she has no right to act like an official. "She misbehaves," says a Soviet translator. "She shouldn't lecture everyone she meets." Over tea and blini, the women in the dachas of the privileged grumble that she does not know her place, that she is reversing the traditional roles of the sexes. "She's a shrew," says one Muscovite. "She wears the pants in the family...
Since then, across the state line, the pollution has provoked indignation that sometimes seems as rank as the river itself. On the Tennessee side, people complain that the river's repugnant color and stench contribute to Cocke County's prolonged economic doldrums by discouraging tourists and development. With an unemployment rate currently averaging 15%, Cocke Countians openly envy the relative prosperity in Haywood County, home of the paper mill (present unemployment average: 6%). Says Cocke County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Robert Seay, co-founder of the Dead Pigeon River Council, which wants to clean up the stink...
...that is nothing less than a patriotic duty. World War II left an estimated 20 million Soviets dead, the overwhelming majority of them men between the ages of 18 and 40. As a result, women account for 53% of the population. In some parts of the country, they complain that they outnumber men by as much as 6 to 1. The imbalance helped give rise in 1944 to Operation Birthrate, under which women who had seven children were awarded the Glory of Motherhood medal. Bearing ten or more children earned the title of Mother Heroine...