Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bold black headlines that read DONOVAN INDICTED can seem quite damning. Indeed, public officials charged by a grand jury often complain that they are convicted by the press. But in fact an indictment is merely a formal accusation; the state still has a long way to go to prove the defendant guilty...
Stephen DiGiovanni, a spokesman for his father's firm, says that he can not see what the Coop has to complain about. "If anything, it's brought more people to the Coop's display window. My question to the Coop is how that disrupts their business," he says...
Other experts complain that the first-grade curriculum has already been pushed down into kindergarten, where pencils and workbooks now claim ever more space beside crayons and building blocks. Says Principal Arwood: "There are some children who are ready for paper-and-pencil activities in kindergarten. There are many who are not. We have a lot of social problems with kids who aren't up to those things." Bertha Campbell, head of the bureau of child development at the New York State department of education, says that demanding kindergartens create too much stress for the youngsters and can have...
More important though rationalizers (or more specifically, the libertarians) would complain that the rationale does not justify the seeming coercion involved in redistribute taxes. There is a way out, though one might call it the Reasonableness Supposition...
...Africa. I could not disagree more with this approach. Once we enter a world in which those with money and power feel free to exert leverage to influence University policies, we should not be surprised to find that universities have lost much of their valuable independence. Nor should we complain when we discover that those who wield the most power are not necessarily those whose policies are congenial...