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Word: complainer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tries to match or surpass the Soviets. As one hard-liner put it early in Reagan's Administration, "Arms control is bad medicine; it is, ipsofacto, bad." Some of the arms-control opponents urged Reagan to use the meeting with Gromyko as a high-level gripe session to complain about a number of Soviet transgressions, prominently including alleged violations by Moscow of previous arms-control agreements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gromyko Comes Calling | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...doesn't occur to people to complain," said Anne M. Whittington '75, a member of the Committee on Restaurant Air Quality Standards set up by the Cambridge City Council. "It's only within the last couple of years that I'd remember always to ask for a non-smoking section...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smoking Ordinance Has Little Effect | 9/27/1984 | See Source »

...rioting in Soweto and other black areas, in which about 500 people were killed, the immediate cause of last week's troubles was not explicitly racial. The government had recently announced an increase in rents and electricity rates in the black townships, enraging local residents, who complain that they are already hard pressed. But other, more specifically political motives may also have been involved. In Evaton township, for instance, 45 Indian shops and houses were burned to the ground, leading to speculation that blacks were furious about Indian participation in the recent parliamentary elections. As it happened, fewer than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Season of Black Rage | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...addition, students and administrators alike complain that the House system creates distinct types of environments, whose stereotypical reputations--whether for academic excellence, athletic prowess, or eccentricity--were borne out in a College study of the House system done last year...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: Against All Odds | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...stiffness of sprays. They discovered a foam (mousse in French) that could deliver two substances-one for body, one for manageability-which textbooks described as incompatible in a mixture. Some doubters claim the breakthrough is just a lot of air to puff up the cosmetics market. A few users complain that mousse leaves a residue and makes hair pack down. Millions of fans, however, swear by it. Carol Alt, a top Elite model who poses for mousse ads, is a convert. The best part, she says, is that her husband likes its pleasant almond fragrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Mousse Is on the Loose A quick, slick hair groomer is the wave of the future | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

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