Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...different complaint was voiced by the University Police who reported that a woman tripped over a scooter near Lamont Library, and two persons have had broken necks as the result of a series of accidents...
Failure at the Top. In the middle, between repairman and customer, are the manufacturers and big utilities, whose sales and reputations suffer with each new breakdown or complaint. Repairs is one of their major problems, and they are the ones who are working hardest to solve it. Says Judson Sayre, president of the Norge Division of Borg-Warner Corp., waving a letter from a Cleveland housewife: "Look at this stack of repair bills she enclosed. I don't blame that woman one bit. She's unhappy. I'd be unhappy too. It's a failure...
...Bill of Complaint. Smarting under the criticism, 20 Latin American countries swiftly drew up a four-point petition counter-criticizing World Bank operations. They wanted 1) speedier loan consideration, 2) loan approval by their own governments rather than the bank, 3) loans in their own national currencies as well as foreign money, 4) granting of "general" loans, not just specific ones. A more telling complaint was added by Pakistan's M. A. Mozaffar: "The ratio of World Bank loans granted to the underdeveloped countries of Asia and the Middle East declined from...
...some established agents have expressed their discontent at the combine's ten per cent tariff on their profits, charging that the tax amounts to confiscation. In most cases, however, the complaint is unsound, as it overlooks the fact that the Agency provides them with legal business addresses--something which their rooms in tax-exempt University property failed to give them...
...hair he had frizzed during the budget flap last winter, when he remarked that continued big budgets would bring on a hair-curling depression. Said he: "I think you might just as well admit that there is a wave of criticism, a wave of disappointment, a wave of complaint that is going all over the country-here in Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, in a lot of places. It is more prevalent with just the kind of people who are right here, the kind of. people who have done the work to furnish the money for these political campaigns...