Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other liberals, says it is "really not a solution." He has campaigned in general terms for a more humane, neighborhood-oriented city government, despite the $200 million in federal funds that have gone into Boston's urban-renewal program in the past seven years. White echoes the common complaint that the money and effort that have gone into face-lifting the downtown skyline have not done much for residential areas or for Boston's down-at-heels schools and hospitals...
Next to the shells, the Marines' biggest complaint is the company they must keep in their bunkers: rats, mosquitoes and flies. "The rats jump right on top of you when you are asleep," says Pfc. Robert Smith, 19. One particularly large rat is named Rockefeller, "because he always gets the best of everything." The standard tour of duty in one of the DMZ camps is 30 days, a brevity that helps make possible the grim humor with which the Marines accept their defensive watch. Atop Major Froncek's bunker stands a six-foot-high handmade catapult, which...
...public," Randall Jarrell once wrote, "has an unusual relation with the poet. It does not even know that he is there." As if to refute this bitter complaint against an unpoetic age, two dozen of Jarrell's brother poets have joined in lament for his death and to explain the mysterious ways in which this minor poet had been of major importance to them...
...arms to Sallal's tough Royalist enemies, and three neutral Arab states will send in observers to make sure that no one cheats. If carried out as promised, that pact would almost certainly result in the fall of Sallal, and the Yemen Premier immediately let out a loud complaint. Big Brother, he wailed, had betrayed him. But Nasser had no other choice. So desperately close to ruin has the Israeli war left Egypt that he simply cannot afford the expense of keeping troops in Yemen. He can barely afford to keep them in Cairo...
...process, ITT's lobbyists and public relations men have been charged with an excess of zeal. Several reporters accused the company of trying to manipulate the news-and this was especially damaging since a main Justice Department complaint is that ITT's worldwide business interests might encourage the company to influence ABC's public-affairs programming. Justice's other key objections are that the merger would result in a cash drain away from already-strapped ABC (both companies insist that, on the contrary, ITT would be supplying the network with fresh capital) and that it would...