Word: complains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even before the pardon, there were signs in the press that skepticism was beginning to revive. Editorial writers on both right and left began to complain about Ford's vacillation on the issue of amnesty for draft evaders. A number of columnists chided Ford for his inaction on the problem of inflation. Typical of them was the Washington Post's Tom Braden, who labeled Ford's summit conference on the economy as "public relations and nothing more...
...police diligence has even extended to traffic, reducing accidents and injuries by 7%. So far, the new system has cost the city $14,000 in extra wages, and the figure may go to $80,000 for this fiscal year. Not a single taxpayer has been heard to complain...
...after the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare accepted Harvard's affirmative action plan following extensive revisions, affirmative action continues to provoke sharply differing responses, both to its underlying ideas and its actual operation. Conservative academics say it will result in second-rate universities, while blacks and women complain it is only tokenism. At Harvard, affirmative action has spawned a complicated bureaucracy and given a new immediacy to the issues of racism and sexism. And it remains almost universally misunderstood...
...dismisses critics of the food and decor at McDonald's, for example, with Ihe assertion that "the function of the fast-food business ... is quite simple: Women's Liberation." That is, it frees Mom from shopping, cooking and washing up, so don't complain. In the same vein, "suburban sprawl is a pejorative phrase that describes perhaps the most comfortable mass residential living conditions in history...
...going. His father, now a gas-station attendant in Havana, was a star pitcher for the New York Cubans in the old Negro Leagues. "Baseball is part of my life," says Tiant. "For us Latins, baseball is in the blood." After all, he adds, "I can't complain about this game. I have good life...