Word: complains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cleveland industrialists conducted a survey, found that half of the city's employers frowned on moonlighting. They pointed out that moonlighters had a higher rate of absenteeism, lower productivity. In many cities, operators of unionized companies complain because their men insist on time and a half for overtime, or double time on Sundays, but will cheerfully work in back-alley, nonunionized shops for less than scale...
...posh Hancock Park. (When a lawyer for nearby property owners told him bluntly in 1948 that "we don't want any undesirable people coming into this neighborhood," he replied: "Neither do I. If I see anybody undesirable coming in here, I'll be the first to complain.") Though polished and well-mannered, he has a flair for the astringent crack. When critics complained that he had deserted pure jazz for sentimental corn, he said: "Critics don't buy records-they get 'em free." He dubbed Bandleader Lawrence Welk "a musical Ed Sullivan...
...Richard Wernick. Wernick has written a dry and witty score fully in keeping with the play; and he presides over a small live orchestra (all in period costume) of winds and percussion, and plinks on a harpsichord from time to time himself. (It would be ungratefully pedantic to complain about the anachronistic use of a clarinet, which in Moliere's day had not yet been invented...
Oriente citizens complain that the rich income earned by Oriente exports (sugar, coffee) goes largely for projects in Havana. Such inequity traditionally spurs Oriente men to rebellion; both of Cuba's wars for independence against Spain began in Oriente, and the first stanza of the Cuban national anthem honors revolutionaries of the Oriente town of Bayamo...
...Frontenac, Kans., City Clerk Tony Getto expected a shower of protests when the water supply was cut off briefly to repair the municipal plant, but while not a single customer telephoned to complain, one man slunk in to pay his bill...