Word: complaintant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...uses the word ontology as naturally as other young men say "dude," but he's quite capable of vivid straight talk. Of his idealistic upbringing he says, "There are families that eat hot dogs and families that don't. We were a family that didn't." And his complaint about a tedious party thrown by his publisher to introduce him to New Haven, Conn., bookstore owners sounds a bit like Letterman: "One of the nice things about West Virginia is that you could comb the entire state and not put together a roomful of booksellers...
...producers of Home Improvement, and actor DAVID DUCHOVNY has another pending against Fox over the The X-Files. "Steven and I finally have become fed up with this vertical integration and self-dealing," says Bochco's attorney, FRANK ROHNER. Fox isn't talking. "We are unaware of any complaint having been filed and have no further comment," a spokesman said...
What has America's right wing spooked is how assiduously the Panamanians are working to make the canal--which has always been run on a nonprofit basis--into a cash cow. It is not a new complaint. In the 1970s, when President Jimmy Carter sold the handover treaty to Congress, there was much whining about turning the canal into little more than an expensive toll road. The latest version of this anxiety adds a national security tweak: fear of China. In 1997, the Panamanian government finalized a rich deal with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., based in Hong Kong...
Spyridon first alarmed his flock in early 1997, when one of his appointees reassigned seminary staff members who had recommended expelling a priest involved in a homosexual-harassment complaint. Critics claim Spyridon wanted to hush the case up. They also said he was traditionalist and high-handed, espousing monastic beards and ceremonial hats for priests and castigating American touches like female choir participation. When more than 100 priests--including the Rev. Robert Stephanopoulos, a popular Manhattan cleric and George's father--signed a letter criticizing him, he handed Stephanopoulos a de facto demotion. A dissident campaign sprang up, organized...
...Patty Roth, a family counselor and author of Enter at Your Own Risk, a book about parenting middle schoolers, says the first and most important thing parents can do for children who report being bullied is to believe them. "You must show your child that you take his complaint very seriously," she says. Much as you might want to, this is not the time to sign your kid up for boxing lessons. Instead, ask your child for ideas or strategies for combatting the bully...