Word: complains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because the building recognizes the facts of Boston, most of its original critics now praise it. Yet other critics still complain that it will increase the densities of both people and autos. Since these are problems common to all skyscrapers, they raise the question of whether any more such supertowers should be built anywhere. C. Allin Cornell, associate professor of civil engineering at M.I.T., compares the skyscraper to the supersonic jets, and adds: "I can't think of any advantage...
Stopping at a Hampstead pub one day last week with his third wife, Actress Mia Farrow, Previn mused about his new life: "Some critics complain that I'm too facile, too concerned with sound rather than content. That hurts because I work hard, damned hard. But I do enjoy most making an orchestra 'sound,' making it project and play with the wish to sound beautiful. Do you know, every time I walk through Festival Hall when it's deserted, I'm moved? I realize I've achieved what I've always wanted...
...face of a University ruling that gave HSA virtually exclusive rights to set up charter and affinity group flights for the Harvard community. Uni-Travel in early February offered Harvard students, employees, and families a round-trip affinity group flight to Acapulco over Spring vacation. Ryan had complained to Dean Epps about Uni-Travel in February 1971, when Uni-Travel organized a Europe flight with the help of a Law School student Daniel Steiner '54. General Counsel to the University, began putting pressure on the law student and a few months later, the University protected HSA's monopoly by making...
Usually, everyone ends up with a piece of everything. As a result, the agencies complain that they are spending more and more of their time just consulting with one another. In the field of drug control there is the Division of Narcotic Drugs, the U.N. Fund for the Secretariat of International Narcotics Control Board and the newly created U.N. Fund for Drug Abuse Control. Recently, another new group of agencies has been started to coordinate special areas among the rival bodies...
...public housing program is in terrible shape. Almost anywhere a project starts, neighbors complain that unwanted poor people are being imposed on otherwise stable communities. The projects' own residents, admitted only if their income is below prescribed levels, argue that they are being segregated from the rest of society. Worst of all, inflation has so increased the cost of operating buildings that many housing officials are beginning to wonder if they can any longer meet their mandate to provide decent low-rent shelter...