Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians at first called the Western proposal "no plan at all," complained that it "puts off disarmament indefinitely, stressing collection of information instead of disbanding bases." The West, said Russia's delegate, impassive Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin, should give more study to "our plan for general and complete disarmament." Exasperated, U.S. Delegate Eaton rose to complain that Zorin had used that phrase "for 135 times since the start of the conference. Let's quit hollow words and get to real steps and measures." Zorin's reply was surprisingly mild, and the West was heartened when...
...first, Strauss tried to bluster out the storm by calling in the U.S. and British ambassadors to complain at the leak. When that did not work, he grudgingly conceded that he would make no further move on the Spanish project without specific NATO approval-which now may prove hard to get. Even after a stormy 2½-hour session with the West German Parliament's defense committee, Strauss continued to insist that "the logic of our ideas and assessment of strategic necessities cannot be disputed," and West Germans asked in hurt tones how their allies could cherish such unworthy...
Laymen who bitterly complain that they cannot find their way through the maze of multiplying medical specialties and subspecialties can take comfort: the fractionation of medical practice has gone so far that the specialists themselves are confused. The professional men's anger and frustration over their internal divisions came out clearly from 1,084 physicians of all types polled by Medical Economics (circ. 150,000). No less than 91% worried about jurisdictional disputes and admitted uncertainty over the problem of where to draw the line...
...monopoly of tracer studies done with radioactive isotopes. Plastic surgeons, whose practice is supposed to be little more than skin-deep, can hardly lift the scalpel without trespassing. Said one: "Every operation in my field crosses other specialties' borderlines." But it works both ways: the plastic men complain that ear-nose-throat specialists are too willing to bob noses...
...happiest of specialists, for as they say. "We are suffering from growing pains." Their business is booming, and because they treat the whole child (thus slopping all over the territory of most other specialists), they take on much of the aura of the oldfashioned family doctor. But even they complain: they would like to get their patients away from the obstetrician more promptly after birth, and some want to edge into consultation on the mother's condition before delivery...