Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Student agitators for reform at the Harvard Law School found too that the law faculty was not only willing to provide them with a channel for their complaints, but was far less hostile to specific reforms than the students might have suspected. In November of 1966, Dean Griswold appointed twelve members to a joint student-faculty committee to discuss all issues of student complaint. Independent agitation for such a committee had come from individual students, from Professor Clark Byse who used these students as his allies to start the faculty moving toward reform...
...fiddle-playing Orpheus is glad to be rid of the unfaithful Eurydice until a character called Public Opinion forces him to complain to Jupiter. The gods, bored with ambrosia and the Olympian idyl, squabble rebelliously; and Jupiter, when he descends to the underworld to investigate Orpheus' complaint, is so taken with Eurydice that he arranges the plot in order to take her away from Orpheus...
...week Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced a long overdue program to eliminate "humiliating discrimination" in off-base housing against Negro G.I.s who are often forced to travel long distances to and from their Southern bases. It might even ease the complaint of the Air Cav's Jim Hamlet, who refuses to accept post-Viet Nam duty in the segregated South -"although some of the best jobs in Army aviation are there...
...than 10% of the Army troops in Viet Nam are Negroes, only 5% of the 11,000 officers are black. Of the 380 combat-battalion commands in the war, only two are held by Negro officers. Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke, during his Viet Nam tour in March, received many complaints that the Negro is not given the opportunity to attain command; he cites the case of a Negro colonel who, when promoted, was given a desk job that had never existed before simply to keep him from being assigned to a line command. One reason, of course, is that...
Strauss's attack was triggered by VW's request that the government relax tax measures that were instituted to ward off a potential deficit in the national budget. Turning the company's complaint around, Strauss charged that the carmaker has come up with little in the way of innovations that might spur the German economy out of its deflated state...