Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lord, we don't like to complain...
Foreign Discrimination. Despite the rise in exports, many U.S. industries complain that foreign nations are moving far too slowly to ease trade barriers. Last week the French government took a step to ease restrictions, lifted import quotas on more than 100 products, including chemicals, phonographs, dictating machines and plywood, rubber and plastic equipment. By 1961 France hopes to end all quotas. But U.S. businessmen face some new restrictions, not only in France but in other nations...
...first time in history, the U.S. auto industry last week went to the Government to complain about foreign tariffs. Before the Commerce Department, the Automobile Manufacturers' Association argued that European duties, purchase taxes and quotas have priced U.S. cars out of the market. Noted the association: with taxes and duties, a U.S. compact such as the Ford Falcon (New York list price: $2,040) costs an English buyer $5,238, an Italian $4,368 and a Frenchman $4,184. Many a businessman feels that unless foreign nations allow U.S. products to compete on equal terms in foreign markets, there...
...make the wounded or burned part "normal." Major difference, he indicated, is that a burned patient goes to his doctor to have the burn treated, whereas the grief-stricken patient, if he goes to the doctor at all, may not tell about his grief. He is more likely to complain of physical symptoms. Yet these, Dr. Engel said, may have been touched off by the grief. Even the folklore notion that some people die of grief is not to be lightly dismissed, he insisted; there is no scientific proof that it is untrue, and it is worth investigating...
...Fantastic Situation." All of this was reported last summer in a blistering expose by the Vancouver Sun. But British Columbia's minister of education, Leslie Peterson, said he could not act unless parents complained that Temple Collegiate's students were not getting a "proper education." The parents did not complain...