Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only did Saradjeff complain about the incompleteness of the set, but he tried to improve the harmony by filing niches in the bells' edges. Bells can be altered in tone by removing some of the metal, but this is usually done by shaving them down on a lathe. President Lowell, found Saradjeff at his filing one day, thought the bell-ringer was spoiling the bells and ordered him to stop...
...upstairs to "vice president in charge of personnel," where subordinates handled the job he was supposed to do. Many a corporate head creates positions to make work for friends, said A.I.M., and some invent titles merely to surround themselves with yesmen. Asks A.I.M.: "How can management, in all fairness, complain at labor featherbedding when managements are so widely guilty of the same practice? In management featherbedding. the damage is greater, the cost is larger and the bad example is more obvious...
...State Department last week called in beetle-browed Soviet Ambassador Georgy Zarubin to complain because New York-based Russian diplomats had browbeaten five refugee Russian sailors into abruptly going back home (TIME, April 23). Top-ranking offender, said State in its properly diplomatic memorandum, was Arkady A. Sobolev, Russia's chief U.N. delegate. Sobolev could stay in the U.S. if he tended to his U.N. business, but the U.S. was firmly booting out of the country his two aides and principal agents in the redefection case, Aleksandr Guryanov and Nikolai Tuakin. When Zarubin had heard all this, he drew...
...popular-is massive and placid but critics say it suffers from heat and a tendency to sterility. The white-faced Hereford-its successor and still the leading U.S. breed-is hailed by many ranchers as a hardy forager and the best beef animal in the world. But other cowmen complain that it is prone to some diseases such as cancer eye and udder burn. The Aberdeen Angus, still growing in popularity, is first-rate under ideal conditions. But it has a reputation for being hard to handle. The hump-backed Brahman, immune to India's heat and insects...
Deductible Comfort. Air-conditioning manufacturers, who do something about the weather as well as complain about it, say that hot and cold spells still throw seasonal estimates out of kilter; e.g., demand rose 200% during a six-week heat wave last July and August. But the trend to bigger, more expensive units has sharply reduced impulse buying. Government agencies also have boosted non-seasonal equipment sales. For example, the Federal Housing Administration recently approved inclusion of central air-conditioning in basic home-mortgage loans. The Internal Revenue Service permits sufferers from hay fever, asthma and heart disease to deduct...