Word: complains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alterations in the lyric, it also was released as Dottie West's latest RCA recording. As such, it is a sign of a growing trend in the country music field to convert jingles into singles. Country music is not only becoming unabashedly commercial, as purists frequently complain; now commercials are becoming country music...
...problem is that in such states as New York, New Jersey and Minnesota, usury laws limit mortgage-loan interest to about 8%. Bankers complain that in today's market, this is so unprofitable that it discourages them from making loans to finance the buying of houses. "If bankers are paying out 10½% to 11% to get short-term money, and the prime rate is 9¼%, then they cannot lend at 8%," says Robert Greenberg, of the state real estate board in New York...
This week Baker is starting to test the political waters, which he found warm and congenial when he traveled around the state during the July 4 recess. Though most people continue to greet him affectionately, he hears of a possible cooling off. Some Tennessee liberals complain that he handled the White House higher-ups too gingerly...
...People complain often about crime and the mounting numbers of foreigners--mostly Turks--and many walk out only with their German shepherds. There is something unreasonably disturbing about the jets that suddenly roar up from Tempelhof over the city center, or the patrolling helicopters close to the border. The East still has the air of an armed camp: soldiers everywhere; temporary kitchens, tents and loudspeakers for a world youth festival; topless ruins...
...elegant London clubs, members complain that the best French clarets are being shipped overseas. In Paris salons, regular customers find that their favorite couturiers are giving strange foreign customers first peek at the latest styles. At the art and antique auctions all over Europe, as many as half of the choicest items are being bought by people who never showed their faces a few years ago. As the American tourist surge is beginning to level off, Europeans are bringing out their stale stories about rich Texans for a new breed of foreigners-the Japanese...