Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just about the commonest complaint seen by the surgeon is one of the least talked-about but most advertised of human conditions: hemorrhoids, or piles. Last week the Federal Trade Commission decided that some clear talk was needed not only about hemorrhoids, but about the advertising claims made by manufacturers of suppositories and ointments for their treatment. These preparations, said the FTC, "at best only afford temporary relief of minor itching . . . and some types of pain." So it ordered the companies "to stop falsely advertising them as cures...
This law, which was passed 101 years ago, has become the source of increasing alumni complaint in recent years. Many alumni officials feel that the rule discourages participation in any alumni activities and hurts fund raising attempts...
This hastily published, obviously much-ghosted "personal" account of I Sheppard's twelve-year fight for vindication suggests that he has the right to another complaint against newspapers: they left him nothing new to say. Except for a few personal letters to members of his family and a number of commonplace recollections of prison life, he seems unable to dredge up anything about his case that will any longer interest the reader...
...black African states, which had argued for a week for stronger stuff, were predictably unhappy. "The resolution is defective," said Nigeria's moderate Ambassador Chief S. O. Adebo. Leading the chorus of complaint was Russia's Nikolai Fedorenko. who picked up some political change in Africa by abstaining-along with Bulgaria and Mali-on the ground that the sanctions did not go far enough. France also abstained from voting, but for a different reason: in the opinion of General de Gaulle, Rhodesia is strictly a British problem and outside U.N. jurisdiction...
Your reporter got the predicate right, but unfortunately slipped up on the subject. Without the qualifying clause in the beginning, my complaint appeared very vividly and bitterly personal...