Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal "antidumping" regulations, and selling color TV sets in the U.S. at bargain-basement prices. Government sources told TIME that one executive of a U.S. importing company has admitted that his firm has received millions of dollars in such kickbacks. John Nevin, chairman of Zenith, the U.S. company whose complaint touched off the investigation about a year ago, calls the kickback probe "the largest customs fraud investigation I know...
Trilling's subjects range from the student rebellion of 1968 and the burgeonings of the women's movement to the fashion for Portnoy's Complaint and the novels of D.H. Lawrence-and what these books suggest about contemporary sexuality. Her 1964 essay mourning the killing of John F. Kennedy best displays the author's power to summon back events. In the intensity of the national bereavement on that "pitiless weekend," she writes, "Americans moved toward each other, groping for the connection which would dispel loneliness." The hope generated by the Kennedy presidency, as Trilling accurately notes...
...June 1, 1870, Illustrator John Tenniel sent his author a letter of complaint. "Don't think me brutal," he wrote, "but I am bound to say that the 'wasp' chapter doesn't interest me in the least." He found that depicting an insect with a golden wig was "altogether beyond the appliances of art." Reluctantly, Lewis Carroll expunged the episode of the wasp from his manuscript of Through the Looking Glass. For more than a century even scholars assumed that the chapter was lost or destroyed -until 1974, when an inconspicuous entry appeared in the London...
Keefer added he is also considering submitting a complaint against the City of Cambridge for possible failure to enforce the existing $2 per 24-hour period storage rates set by Massachusetts...
Witnesses previously testified that following a noise complaint on July 29, 1926, state troopers and 20 officers from five area neighborhoods, equipped with dogs, riot helmets, sticks and mace, converged on a group of mostly Indian men who had been participating in a religious ceremony...