Word: complains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...motivating force behind the unionization drives is a combination of pay and pride. The average starting salary of a secretary at Harvard, for instance, is between $107 and $38, while the average salary for all Boston secretaries is $152. Secretaries at Harvard complain that it is hard to advance through the University's three-grade secretarial pay scale...
...weatherman's nightmare: It changes all the time. Right now we witness another phantasmagoria of events in Washington, and we are tempted to insist on knowing who did what to whom when and why. More facts come in, and they confuse us. We will never know, we complain, expecting to judge men's guilt with the omnipotence of the Old Testament God. We probably will never know the answers to those questions. But we should ask other questions. The truths of history go beyond the guilt and innocence of individual...
When Arnold Palmer became a popular hero, golf and money married, and things have never since been as polite as they once were. Still, golfers maintained the right to complain when their concentration was affronted. The problem has not been as bothersome in professional tennis, probably because of the composition, and the style, of those who watched, country clubbers and suburban elites, firm believers all in the etiquette of the game. When commercial sponsors started backing tennis heavily in the early '60s, a popular participation mushroomed. Entrepreneurs figured that they could tune into something big--the problem, were the killing...
...measure of the change that Sadat has already wrought in Egyptian society is that some of his policies are being openly criticized by the intellectual fringe of what is still a very loyal opposition. Some complain that he is abandoning Nasser's vision of Egypt as an Arab socialist community. Others charge that he has built up excessively high hopes based on what Kissinger's diplomacy may achieve, and is risking a bitter backlash. Even American diplomats have gently tried to warn him that U.S. aid may not be forthcoming in quite the amount he expects. Tacitly, Sadat...
...behind? The Black Muslims scored a major victory when they persuaded federal courts in 1961 to recognize their right to bring suit protecting their religion. Other legal challenges followed. In a series of state and federal courts, prisoners have won the right to form cultural and educational organizations, to complain to newspapers, to correspond with their attorneys without officials opening the letters and to have less censorship of other mail and reading material. Last week even the Supreme Court put its stamp of disapproval on such censorship, saying that it was constitutional only in limited situations that substantially affected "security...