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Word: complains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hand you say that what with inflation your costs are now somewhere up near the ozone level and that in order to continue to do your job well you're simply going to have to have increased access to federal funds. And on the other hand, you seem to complain that the federal government especially is meddling in your affairs, creating unnecessary paperwork, in some cases affecting admissions policies and so forth. Aren't you trying to have your cake...

Author: By Derek C. Bok, | Title: Now, Live From D.C., Here's Derek | 11/30/1976 | See Source »

This nondiet is clearly not for everyone. About 20% of those who sign up eventually drop out. Others have occasional lapses, like yielding to the temptation of an ice cream sundae, though most seem to lose their appetites entirely. A few complain of dizziness, dry skin and hair loss in the first weeks. But if they can endure, the fasting pays off. Vertes says that of the more than 750 patients who have been treated, some 80% have lost at least 80 lbs.-to say nothing of such benefits as the reduction of blood sugar in diabetics or the lowering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dieting by Starving | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...that the evening was dull. After irate viewers had called NBC to complain, Chancellor apologized for noting, accurately as it happens, that Democrats are generally poorer and less well educated than Republicans: "If you're listening, Averell Harriman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan of Harvard, I hope you'll forgive me." CBS'S Dan Rather tried to brighten the proceedings with some well-honed metaphors. Assessing Gerald Ford's uncertain prospects in the Midwest, Rather declared: "You can pour water on the fire and call in the dogs, because the hunt will be over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Long Night at the Races | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...responsibility to advance rests on the hospitals and universities, Bok added. "If private institutions make no effort to solve acknowledged problems, they forfeit their right to complain when the government intervenes...

Author: By Betsy Gershun, | Title: Bok Says Autonomy Hurts Harvard Medical Facilities | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...their dwellings with other families; the waiting period for an apartment is often as long as ten years. Sixty miles south of Warsaw, in the town of Radom, where last summer workers set fire to the local Communist Party headquarters, a Catholic priest observed, "The mood is bad. People complain, they curse, they show little interest in doing their jobs properly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Winter of Discontent | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

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