Word: complains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Helping the poor is one of mankind's nobler activities, but as with all good works, it can be pursued with excessive zeal. That, at least, seems to be the case in Chicago, where some donors complain that goods they have left clearly marked for pickup by one charitable organization have been pilfered by truck drivers for a rival charity. People have reported that Amvets trucks have picked up clothing left for the Salvation Army. An Amvets official denies that this is being done but says witnesses have seen Salvation Army drivers making off with Amvets bundles. And Goodwill...
Unquestionably, decent Americans have reason to complain about the persistence of a double standard of justice for blacks and whites, rich and poor, which reflects the wider pattern of discrimination throughout the nation. But that does not legitimize a rhetoric that equates violence with politics, rape with revolution. The gradual, painful struggle of the U.S. to make equality a fact instead of a broken promise lacks the seductive appeal of revolutionary apocalypse. But for the majority of Americans, regardless of race, it nonetheless remains the only way to conquer hypocrisy. It may also be the only way to prevent...
...other side of the coin, business is improving. The nation gradually lifted out of its recession late last year; from their 1970 low points, production has risen 3.9% and personal income has advanced 8.6%. Consumers complain about being broke, but in fact they have more money than ever (though their dollars are worth less than before). They are increasing their savings at a spectacular annual rate of $64 billion. If they could be tempted to part with some of that cash, retail sales and the stock market could soar. Businessmen have trimmed the overly large payrolls that they accumulated during...
...Another reaction was to blame environmentalists for the infestation. Because he recommended no aerial spraying of pesticides, Elmer Madsen of the Bristol, Conn., conservation commission received a box of squirming caterpillars from an angry resident. Someone else called him one night to complain "The noise of the worms eating is keeping me awake." This month three aspirants for political office in Bristol announced that they would run on an ecological backlash ticket. Their theme: Spray pesticides next year...
Medical experts conceded that weightlessness could have played a part in the deaths, but they had doubts that the hearts of three men with different physiologies would fail simultaneously. They also pointed out that at no time during the long mission did the cosmonauts complain of any harsh reaction to zero gravity. In fact, they had spent long hours on board in their so-called "Penguin" exercise suits-tight, elastic garments designed to exert muscle-toning pressure on the body. Besides, the experience of America's astronauts seemed to demonstrate that the human body can readjust after prolonged weightlessness...