Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waving his stubby arms. "Of course, you are going to complain all over the place, 'Khrushchev is threatening!' Well, he is not threatening. He is really predicting the future . . . The arms race will go on, and this will bring about war, and in that war you will lose, and many of those sitting here will not be found any longer-and not many, but perhaps all. You are accustomed to listen to words that lull you. But, as for Khrushchev, I do not wish to pat your heads when the world is on the verge of catastrophe...
...case of family-owned or family-controlled companies, keeping the money in the family is often top policy, since there are seldom outside stockholders who might complain. Sam Alterman, vice president of the Atlanta-based Big Apple grocery chain (50 stores), which is largely owned by him and his three brothers, finds nothing wrong with buying from another brother for his chain-when his brother meets price and quality requirements. Still other firms condone profitable outside interests as devices to spare their executives from high-bracket income taxes-one of the chief reasons for sideline interests. San Francisco Management Consultant...
This book's heroes all seem to be sixfoot-three, thundering horsemen, invincible sword fighters and high-bouncing lovers; if the story were fiction, critics could complain that the earth does not breed such men. But Author Lesley Blanch has discovered an episode-Russia's efforts to subdue the Caucasian mountain tribes during the first half of the 19th century -which abounds in authentic hell-and-crinoline raisers, and she describes it with enormous relish. Not much romanticizing is necessary; the source material is generally incandescent...
...cities Thompson has encountered stiff, if subtle, resistance from the organization bosses, who fear that they may lose control of their districts if thousands of rediscovered Democrats suddenly outnumber faithful machine supporters. In New York, the reformers complain that Tammany workers will not walk up more than one flight of stairs to seek out new voters. But despite the bosses' roadblocks, Thompson's raiders have done a good job. Some 140,000 new Spanish-speaking Democrats have been registered in California through the Viva Kennedy Clubs. In Baltimore, Thompson's pilot city, 7,000 "unsuspected Democrats" have...
...result, the independents flooded the FPC with requests for rate decisions and put in interim rates on their own. Consumer groups soon began to complain about skyrocketing interim rates. The harried FPC pleaded with Congress to take the unwanted job off its hands, but bills introduced in 1956 and 1958 died largely because Congressmen and the President were appalled by the extent of gas producers' lobbying...