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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other side, non-Indian critics of the law charge that it permits tribal courts to remove Indian children from foster homes where they have lived happily for years. They complain that it allows tribes to lay claim to children who have never lived on a reservation, simply because one of their parents is part Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Adoption Battle over Baby K. | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...council will discuss general complaints about the course ranging from the inconsistent quality of the section leaders to competition within the sections to the dullness of the lectures. "Students complain about everything," said Todd R. Porter, an Ec 10 section leader...

Author: By Cynthia L. Mao, | Title: Committee Will Critique Ec 10 | 4/14/1988 | See Source »

Said Cristina R. Diaz '91, an Ec 10 student, "I would complain about the unusefulness of the green textbook." She also said, "They're very conservative... They should have more radical speakers come and talk...

Author: By Cynthia L. Mao, | Title: Committee Will Critique Ec 10 | 4/14/1988 | See Source »

...split between student interest in "soft" psychology and faculty expertise in the more numerical side of the field has led many undergraduates to complain that the department is too empirically oriented. They say it is virtually impossible to write theses that are not based on original experiments...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: A Search for Identity | 4/13/1988 | See Source »

Austerity-minded officials from Beijing sometimes complain that touring Guangdong province in South China is like visiting a foreign country. In contrast to much of China, Guangdong exudes abundance: successful farmers living in multistory houses, townships producing consumer goods ranging from shoes to toys to microwave ovens, thousands of privately owned businesses blossoming. Set in the humid delta of the Pearl River, Guangdong's capital, Guangzhou, better known in the West as Canton, seethes with enterprise. The Dongping Street free market is filled with stalls selling all sorts of food: fish swimming in tubs of fresh water, poultry, a greengrocer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China One for the Money, One Goes Slow | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

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