Word: complains
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...jailed as long as a year. In addition, a victim may sue for twice the amount of any misrepresented finance charge and collect damages up to $1,000, plus court costs. The heaviest enforcement burden will fall on the Federal Trade Commission. FTC of ficials complain that "Z" will force their agency to regulate 1 ,500,000 more businesses without a penny of extra appropriations from Congress...
...Taosenos complain of the hippies' immorality, drug abuse and public nudity, but the complaints have proved largely illusory. A more realistic reason for the rancor is the fact that as many as 25% of local residents-most of whom are Mexican Americans-are unemployed, and many resent the white middle-class hippies' obvious flouting of the American ideal. "They are making fun of our poverty and our fight for survival," says Francis Quintana, a local school principal. Another explanation is that local entrepreneurs fear the hippies will hurt Taos' largest industry, tourism. "Tourists don't want...
...Congress. Until recently, the judges were able to resist such a requirement by noting that neither the executive nor the congressional branch of government required such disclosure from its members. But Congress last year enacted its own code of ethics-however weak-and the judges could no longer complain that they were being singled out unfairly...
...exterior-an attitude quickly acquired in hospital service. But often it cloaks deep feelings of anger and frustration at their inability to slow the inevitable or at least relieve their patients' pain. The patients, in turn, become even more despondent. Confronted by apparently diffident nurses, they begin to complain that they are lied to about their condition, treated with contempt and given inadequate attention...
People correctly complain that prices are going up faster under Nixon than they did under President Johnson, but the blame belongs to the Johnson Ad ministration. In the mid-1960s, Lyndon Johnson pressed ahead simultaneously with both the Great Society and the Viet Nam escalation, without requesting an increase in taxes. Between 1965 and 1968, federal spending jumped 47%, and the Government put much more money into the economy than it took out. Johnson feared that if he asked for higher taxes, Congress would balk at paying for what some economists now call the "marriage of the warfare...