Word: complains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upper echelon, one official noted, "Gierek will have more trouble with the corporals than the captains." The middle-and low-level party bureaucrats, who most often deal with the public, remain in office, as unhelpful and obdurate as ever. Polish newspapers daily receive letters from readers who complain that at the lower level, everything is as it was before...
Useful Signposts. Some British newsmen complain that the notices constitute "unofficial censorship." But most editors agree that the warnings provide useful signposts when dealing with stories that might compromise defense security or conflict with the Official Secrets Act, which applies to individuals as well as the press...
...view of Nader's Raiders and the authors of America, Inc., the Mitchell-McLaren policy is grossly inadequate because it leaves untouched the nation's already existing aggregations of economic power. The critics complain that the 200 largest U.S. corporations control about two-thirds of all manufacturing assets, a degree of concentration that some economists had not expected the U.S. to reach until 1975 at the earliest. The critics have brought up again the oldest question of antitrust policy: Is bigness, in itself, bad? They reply with a ringing...
...question now is whether the Army will make the Bragg initiative a nationwide program. At the moment the Department of Defense is fretting over the potential for trouble if it gives the experiment its official blessing. Will the American Medical Association cry "socialized medicine"? Will contractors and laborers complain that the program is taking jobs away from them...
Representative Griffiths went on to complain that some states should not receive federal funds because they do not tax themselves enough. Connally retorted that that was "not fair." When he served as Governor of Texas, he said, he raised taxes at every session of the legislature. "Does Texas have an income tax?" asked Representative Griffiths. "No, ma'am," Connally replied, almost contritely. Said Griffiths: "Well, Michigan does have an income tax. I'm not interested in Michigan paying any more to help Texas meet its problems...