Word: complains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Friday, Oct. 12, Dinitz still had heard nothing about the 20 charters. A half-dozen Israeli planes had transported military equipment from the United States to Israel, but that was, as [Dinitz] put it, 'a drop in the bucket.'" When Dinitz called Kissinger to complain, the Kalbs report, "the Secretary seemed surprised and angry. Kissinger immediately called Schlesinger and, in the President's name, instructed him to arrange for the charter of 20 civilian transport planes. Schlesinger said the Pentagon had tried to hire civilian charters but failed. Most [airline] companies, he explained, did not want...
Located halfway between cities that are Texas' traditional rivals - and an arduous $14 cab ride from either- the $700 million airport has been successful only in enraging most of the travelers who use it. They complain bitterly about the outrageous prices and protest that they are "quartered" to death - charged 25? for coffee, local phone calls and even for going from one airline to another. To add indignity to outrage, the quarters often have to be obtained from change machines that return only 95? on the dollar. The only free facilities are drinking fountains, and the water pressure...
...independence. The CPSC has just raised loud protests from traditionalists by banning all firecrackers beginning next week - thus muting the Fourth of July. The commission is now scrimmaging with the management of the National Football League over whether to bar artificial turf in stadiums; falling on plastic turf, players complain, causes injuries far more severe than those resulting from being tackled on grass...
Rosovsky opens his door to all members of the Faculty, as is traditional for the dean. But at the same time, middle-level administrators complain that Rosovsky sometimes delegates them responsibilities without enough accompanying power to back up their decisions, which are almost always appealed to the dean. In the Dunlop era this procedure was acceptable because Dunlop thrived on delicately balancing such conflicting demands personally. Rosovsky, however, makes clear his desire that "people have to perceive that decisions at the lower levels are the ones that count...
...like" by saying, "How do you know it isn't a woman?" Horner is probably responsible in large measure for Rosovsky's change in his conception of the deanship, and she accomplished the change by having him ask her advice first so she wouldn't be forced to complain later...