Word: complains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commission's attitude will force many companies to keep much closer tab on their productivity and profit margins. Some complain that the task seems impossible. "We have never developed a productivity measure that satisfied us over the short span," says Dean McNeal, vice president of Minneapolis' Pillsbury Co. On the other hand, Grayson, as a business school dean on leave from S.M.U., appears to relish the idea of pressuring companies into stricter cost accounting...
Remember the Zero. More seriously, some of the Americans complain that the thorough Japanese sometimes take three weeks to make a seemingly simple decision. As for the Japanese, each of whom expects to spend up to six years in San Angelo, they worry that their children are becoming too Americanized. Two children of a Mitsubishi executive recently returned to Japan and scandalized relatives by forgetting to take off their shoes before entering the family home...
...music notebook and then perverting it by pouring coffee all over the page and hitting it with a blunt object.) The band is afraid that Zappa is watching everything they are doing and that he will make them repeat it in the movie. Yet at other times they complain to the audience that he is in the background somewhere, directing them and making them say absurd things...
...stage spectacle on film, our Color Projects staff arranged a "photo call" - a performance of the show's highlights a cappella. Reporter-Researcher Mary Themo was pleasantly surprised by the performers' patience; they had already played two performances that day. "Jeff Fenholt, who plays Jesus, did complain just a bit," she recalls...
...American agreement returning Quemoy-Matsu to the Japanese escalates China's encirclement. The agreement returns Quemoy-Matsu to the Japanese fully armed with American arms and personnel. On the other hand, Nixon might well have calculated the treaty as a bone thrown to the Japanese so they won't complain when America control of Taiwan...