Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conservationists want the Senate's Interior Committee to question Hickel closely on 14 counts. These range from a natural-gas franchise given one of his companies to charges that, while he was Governor, the state built roads for the benefit of his properties. Hickel's critics complain that he has been far too friendly with Alaska's oil operators to be given the Interior Secretary's wide regulatory powers over the entire $50 billion petroleum industry. Hickel has also alienated many Northeastern Senators by his opposition to a scheme for cutting fuel costs in New England...
Particularly among Britain's lower-class whites, this influx has aroused the full range of reactions that accompany any major wave of immigration anywhere. Cockney housewives grimace at pungent cooking odors wafting from Indian kitchens, and early-to-bed British workingmen complain of being kept awake all night by twanging West Indian music. Since immigrant shopkeepers are willing to keep longer hours, white merchants resent the competition. More seriously, the immigrants vie for low-cost housing, which is scarce in Britain. Unwelcome in many localities, the new minority groups cluster together and overcrowd their neighborhoods, forcing out white families...
...Fiats." Russia has hired Fiat to help it construct and run an $800 million plant at Togliattigrad on the Volga. The huge plant is scheduled to begin producing Fiats by early 1970, and work up to an annual output of 600,000. "It is hard for Italian Communists to complain about Agnelli," says Rome University Economist Paolo Sylos-Labini. "After all, if Fiat is good for Russia, why shouldn't it be good for Italy...
Miss Gill testified before the Council that tenants in Harvard-owned housing have been afraid to complain about neglect, fearing that Harvard would raise the rent or destroy the building. "The men who run these things are strict businessmen," she said...
...Afraid to Complain...