Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Making Markets. "This is subsidy, no getting around it," snaps one official of the General Services Administration, which buys and minds the materials after the Office of Emergency Planning has set the goals. Some businessmen complain that the Government grossly overestimated its stockpile needs, hence encouraged producers, notably the lead miners and refiners, to develop so much capacity that whenever Washington stopped buying, the private market was flooded and prices went tumbling...
...Government right down to a crumby $5,000 for feeding migratory birds. His budget's "modest" surplus depended on many ifs, ands and buts. Liberals might be miffed because it did not offer as much as they thought it should in the way of domestic panaceas. Conservatives could complain because it did not take the increased costs of defense out of welfare programming. It was a record-breaking budget calculated to elate no one and enrage...
Under the escape clause, any industry can complain to the Tariff Commission that it is being hurt by imports. The commission can then recommend to the President that the tariff be raised. Presidents have obediently raised tariffs 13 times, turned down the commission's advice 23 times. By law, the President's refusal to raise a tariff can be overridden by a two-thirds vote of the Congress, but this has never happened, since no industry has ever been able to raise such support on Capitol Hill...
Often he rode incognito in taxicabs just to tune in on hackies' grumbles. "When the gripes are scattered around," he says, "things are going O.K.; it's when the cab drivers all complain about the same thing that you know something is wrong." He clocked 30,000 miles a year in his car, was on hand at every four-or-more-alarm fire in the city to quarterback traffic control ("anything that obstructs traffic is our concern"). He installed an elaborate electronic control system, which enabled him to play the city's traffic lights like a color...
...doubtful that Angelenos, who have never demanded an outstanding newspaper, will complain either about the loss of two papers or the caliber of the survivors. The chief mourners last week were the staffs of the two foundered dailies-400 on the Mirror, 1,000 on the Examiner-who, with scant notice, faced the bleak prospect of looking for other jobs in a diminished market. The Chandlers were ordering the dismissal of a handful of Times staffers to make room for the handful of Mirror people marked for salvage. Hearst hastily formed an "employment exchange" which was designed to land...