Word: complains
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...interpreted: the part of the decision that bars state prohibitions even in the third trimester in cases where the health of the mother is endangered has been so liberally construed as to include such open-ended absurdities as "economic" and "psychological" health, which essentially means that a woman can complain of the impact of having a child on her future income stream in order to get it "terminated...
...large, members of the Reagan Administration need little coaxing when it comes to stepping out. Indeed, some Democrats complain uncharitably that Smith, for one, pays less attention to court calendars than to social ones. Says one Democratic Senator: "If you want to reach the Attorney General, call his social secretary and find out what party he is going to." Yet Max Friedersdorf, a former Reagan legislative assistant, insists that when he tried to cut back on his staffs outside socializing, he discovered that their productivity suffered. Says he: "You have to go to parties to stay informed...
...case against IBM was dropped in January 1982, but a few industry executives, including Apple's Jobs and Benjamin Rosen, chairman of Compaq, are beginning to talk openly about another one. Says Parren Mitchell, chairman of the House Small Business Committee: "Sooner or later, someone is going to complain to the committee about...
Residents of West Virginia's Kanawha Valley complain about the putrid smell that sometimes hangs over the area, comparing it to the odor of dead rats and rotten cabbage. But to many locals the sulfurous aromas spewing from a dozen plants spread along a 30-mile section known locally as Chemical Valley are still "the smell of meat and potatoes." That is because these factories pay the wages of 10,000 people in a state that suffers the highest unemployment rate in the nation (16%). Says Bob Harbert, 36, a cab driver in Nitro, W. Va. (named...
When Harvard buys up apartment space in the area local residents complain says Sally Zeckhauser president of Harvard Real Estate (HRE). But when Cambridge's largest landlord gets out of the market as it is doing now local residents complain, she adds...