Word: complaintant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performed a valuable service by calling attention to the giant's weaknesses. But Reagan's approach, once he was elected, was fundamentally flawed. So is George Bush's. Government was not the problem. The problem was, and still is, that the country was being governed badly. The conservative complaint that only liberal elitists think Washington must actually do something is self- evidently silly. Of course, the Government must do something. That is why it exists: to act in ways that improve the lives of its citizens and their security in the world. The list of missed opportunities and ignored challenges...
...said that when CBS began to air more material concerning AIDS in 1988, CBS received over 70,000 letters of complaint, many of which were part of an organized campaign...
Besides addressing broader goals, smoothing out financial differences could make "choice" -- a policy permitting parents to move their children from schools they do not like to ones they do -- more palatable to critics. Until now, the chief complaint has been that choice encourages parents to abandon poor inner-city schools. If every school got roughly the same funding, parents could make judgments based on nonmonetary concerns, and failing schools would have the resources to improve...
Bush promised to look into her complaint. "Tothe degree we can improve our communications,fine," he said...
...this is a minor complaint. Take two hours with the Fabulous Baker Boys and a big box of popcorn, and forget about real life for a while...