Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, the myth that all section leaders are adequately qualified scholars and teachers must be exploded. Professors should accept the fact that some of their TFs are inept and attempt to compensate. They should make it more comfortable for students to complain about section leaders and should permit students to switch sections simply on the basis of disliking a section leader. In Ec 10 currently, dissatisfied students are forced to come up with far more creative excuses...
...city of Sverdlovsk, Yeltsin was brought to Moscow by Gorbachev in 1985 and quickly established himself as a supersalesman of perestroika (restructuring), Gorbachev's plan to modernize the Soviet economy. To the delight of ordinary Muscovites, he became a one-man consumer-protection agency, stopping off in stores to complain about poor- quality merchandise, calling Moscow's famed subway unsafe and criticizing state contractors for falling behind in constructing new housing. But his blunt language and grandstanding earned him enemies. Explains Marshall Goldman, associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "People came to resent him as an outlander...
...house on the edge of Cebu. No more. "It's a no-man's-land," he says. "Army helicopters buzz here every morning." In February 1986 Oposa and his friends danced in the streets when Aquino came to power. Now they often sit around his comfortable home and complain about the way the country is run. The lawyer sometimes ends the discussions with rueful sarcasm: "Well, at least we have freedom...
...history stretching back two centuries, an accumulation of the experience of politicians, lobbyists, journalists, tycoons, labor skates, hustlers, social climbers, clergy, judges, tourists, professors, bureaucrats and any number of crooks, white collar and otherwise. In short, it has served as America come to the front office to complain. Washington is bigger, lustier and louder than ever, and it is still the final point of impact on the presidency...
Meanwhile, the bureaucracy grows only more cumbersome. Nicaraguans complain about having to be screened by their local Sandinista defense committee before they can even apply for a driver's license or passport. "We need a visa to leave the country," says Maria Fernandez Bermudez, on the way to visit relatives in Costa Rica. "And then we need permission to return again. Imagine having to get a visa to return to your own country...