Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sweaty Palms. Beyond sociological reasons lie the personal fears, guilt and shame of the victim himself. Police rarely hear from the businessman who has been robbed by a prostitute. They are even less likely to get a complaint from the hoodlum who has been threatened by the Mafia or the teen-ager who has paid for pot and got oregano instead. In instances of child molesting, some parents are either too ashamed themselves to go to the police or want to spare their youngsters further embarrassment...
...fewer than 182 "hazardous agents," ranging from acetaldehyde (used in making mirrors) to zirconium compounds (used in manufacturing deodorants). Even secretaries who handle office duplicating machines may contract dermatitis, a skin inflammation caused by sensitivity to solvents and vapors, which has become the leading source of medical complaint in industry...
FURTHER, whatever cease and desist orders are issued, are made innocuous by incredible administrative delays in enforcement. The average delay is over four years between the issuance of a complaint and the beginning of an investigation until the decision to issue an order. By this time, the report points out, the advertising campaign or fraudulent practice in question has long since finished. Yet the F.T.C. often forestalls indefinitely the issuance of a complaint by secretly but interminably extending the "deadlines" for investigations...
Jessie L. Gill, chairman of the Mt. Auburn Tenants Union, which sought the complaint, said she would now take it to the City's building department and the district attorney's office...
Monday night, Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci voiced a complaint long whispered around the Square: "Bow Street looks like the City dump." City health inspectors should crack down on those who place piles of trash in the area, he said, adding that it might be necessary for the City to swear out a complaint in the Third District Court in East Cambridge against "the owners of that castle...