Word: complains
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People who have lost money in a loan club rarely complain to the police, but that may be changing. Last year 23 South Korean immigrants filed a class- action fraud suit in California to recover more than $407,000 lost in four keh organized by Soon Duk Cabling. Court documents show that Cabling partly financed several small businesses in San Francisco with money from the keh. When her stores started losing money and word of her financial problems spread, the loan clubs disintegrated. If the court decides to protect the keh deposits by ordering Cabling to pay up, the case...
After naming a Chief Justice and three Associates to the Supreme Court, Ronald Reagan can hardly complain that it is not to his liking. But last week the court proved again how frustratingly independent it can be, decisively upholding the special prosecutors who have bedeviled Reagan's second term. In the process, it also cleared the way for the upcoming trials of the Iran- contra Four: Oliver North, John Poindexter, Richard Secord and Albert Hakim. Says Michigan Democratic Senator Carl Levin, who sponsored the independent- counsel legislation: "It's a slam-dunk decision...
...professors complain that Summer School administrators made an abrupt policy change by requiring them to ask for TFs in courses that have customarily had them...
...Proper design," he says, "can make a difference in our quality of life." If designers will not "help fight the battle for usability," then, he urges, frustrated consumers should write to manufacturers, complain to stores and buy well-designed products even if they do cost a bit more. "And enjoy yourself. Walk around the world examining the details of design," he says. "Give mental prizes to those who practice good design: send flowers. Jeer those who don't: send weeds...
...bill to limit campaign financing was filibustered to death by Republicans last February. Efforts to curb honorariums have failed because lawmakers complain they cannot get by on $89,500 a year, a lament that understandably falls on deaf ears beyond the Beltway, where the median family income...