Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read "A Passage to India" and "The Jewel in the Crown." You've seen the movie "Gandhi" twice. You have Indian tapestries on your walls, and your roommates complain about the pervasive scent of incense. You love samosas, lamb curry, and tandoori chicken. And now, you've finally decided that you'd better take some courses on India...
...their contribution -- either in dollars or hours worked -- to the project. Fisher's take, which ran to 125 computer pages, consisted of silver coins. He received no gold or jewelry, but since the currency may be worth as much as $7 million, Long Mel Silver has no reason to complain...
Many buyers of chips, however, complain that the Government is protecting one high-tech industry by raising costs for many others. The protests have even come from the European Community, which believes its computer makers could be hurt by rising semiconductor costs. At Silicon Graphics in Mountain View, Calif., the cost of producing a system containing 144 one-megabit memory chips has nearly doubled because the semiconductors have increased in price from $22 to $107. Says Jerry Sugar, president of Classic Technology, a computer-systems maker in San Jose: "I called Washington to protest. Higher chip prices are going...
However, many of the lowest rent units are owned by landlords--the "small property owners"--who are unable by language or education or managerial skills or who are unwilling for financial or philosophical reasons to begin this adjustment. Nevertheless, they complain loudly to the city council about the "unfairness" of rent control. During this stalemate, the property may deteriorate significantly and be lost to future tenants. Numerous cases abound with properties at 34 Cedar St. and 74-6 Putnam Ave. being newsworthy recently...
...Soviet bureaucracy has not been the only barrier to progress. Soviet officials complain that the incessant squabbling within American negotiating teams between moderates and hard-liners makes progress glacially slow. At recent bargaining sessions, says one well-placed U.S.S.R. official, the tensions and disagreements on the American side were "if not right out in the open, then very easy for us to detect." Some of Reagan's advisers are dissatisfied too, and had begun to discuss opening some sort of "back channel" to Moscow before Gorbachev in effect proposed the ultimate back channel, one running through the top leaders...