Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Black student actors and directors complain about a lack of roles and opportunities for Blacks. "There are fewer [opportunities] than I would like to see," says director Brenda Walker '88, who is Black...
Indeed, Congress and federal regulators are already taking some hard looks at cable's newfound muscle. During the 1970s and early '80s, a number of regulatory benefits were given to cable in an effort to encourage the fledgling industry. Now competitors complain that cable enjoys several unfair advantages in the marketplace. One of them was removed last week, when the Federal Communications Commission voted to reimpose the so-called syndicated exclusivity rules. Broadcasters have long argued that local stations that buy exclusive rights to syndicated programming are being hurt by cable channels airing the same shows (typically, reruns...
...stormy moods in Chicago's futures markets can directly influence the performance of underlying stocks and bonds in New York, prompting traders on Wall Street to complain that the tail is now wagging the dog. "What stocks once represented," says Prudential-Bache's Ball, referring to long-term investment, "is being sublimated for something more frenzied...
...Harvard were merely a good liberal arts college, graduates would enter the world without the stigma of great potential for success. Now, I know what you're saying--you're saying, "Oh, shut up. How can anyone complain that a school is too good? You are the worst person I've ever met." Wait, don't get personal here. Jeez...
...gathering news and labors over every nuance and comma. "She is one of the most energetic and committed editors I have ever seen," says Shelby Coffey | III, who worked with Amsterdam at the Washington Post and was recently named executive editor of the Los Angeles Times. Amsterdam's detractors complain that she can be impatient, has a thin skin and gets on better with male colleagues than with female. Amsterdam is married to her former boss at New Times, Jonathan Z. Larsen...