Word: complains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take John out of one event in which he excelled and put him in another where he didn't, he'd do it and never complain...
...clampdown on nearly all pay and price increases, with the major exception of unprocessed farm products. The Cost of Living Council is created, with Treasury Secretary John Connolly as chairman, to enforce the freeze. Compliance is widespread, though some unions complain that the rules are antilabor...
...Security Intelligence Organization to unearth files that had supposedly been withheld from him. It was rather as if a U.S. Attorney General had stormed the FBI. Shortly after that incident, federal and New South Wales state police staged dawn raids on 68 Croatian homes. Australians barely had time to complain about "police-state methods" when they were horrified to learn that Yugoslavia had surreptitiously executed three alleged Croatian terrorists who held Australian citizenship...
...statement, Freedom, Inc., a local civil rights group, charges: "His unyielding position on law and order contributed fuel to the fiery 1968 riots instead of quenching them." Kelley disagrees, saying that his hard-nosed approach kept them from being worse than they were. Black residents also complain that only about 100 of the city's 1,300 police officers are black. Kelley, however, insists that the reason is not bigotry, but that few black applicants meet the department's standards. There were only seven blacks on the force when he took over...
...most departments, a late thesis means a penalty of one full distinction. A Social Studies thesis--more than a month overdue--which received a summa minus was dropped down to a magna plus. Few undergraduates complain about penalties for extremely late theses, although there is always annual speculation about what might happen if a student misses his 5 p.m. deadline by 12 minutes...