Word: complains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While retail prices climb, farmers complain that the money they collect continues to fall behind rising production costs. Some farmers have been threatening to restrict production severely unless the Government increases crop-support payments, but their much publicized "strike" so far shows no sign of success...
...clerks, waiters, et al.-to get those products from the farm to the table at home or in restaurants. Operating expenses for food retailers have been rising particularly fast. One major chain, Supermarkets General (Pathmark), expects labor, energy and tax outlays to swell about 10% each. Yet supermarket managers complain that competition is so keen they cannot raise prices fast enough to ease the pinch on profit margins...
...long as they can make profits, American firms will remain in South Africa, making concessions to non-white political and economic rights only when the U.S. government and the stockholders begin to complain too loudly for comfort...
Gunther goes on to complain about what might be called reverse sexism. "What is about women is interesting, what is about men is dull...women playwrights and authors, even of dubious quality, are hoisted into the national spotlight. We are expected to listen to women not because they are brilliant musicians but because they are women...
Social democracy is the most liberal version of socialism. Marxist-Leninists complain that social democrats are "bourgeois revisionists" and they have traditionally been the first victims of Communist coups. Social democrats can justly answer back that the "true socialists" of Moscow are dictators who have betrayed Marxism's humanistic vision. Alone or in coalitions, social-democratic leaders control the governments of Britain, West Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Norway, The Netherlands, Portugal?to cite only European examples. (Sweden's Social Democrats, after 44 years in power, were defeated in 1976 by a narrow margin.) Social democracy accepts a multiparty...