Word: complaints
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Wyman readily accepted the challenge of allying himself with Ford policies. He echoed a repeated Ford complaint about the evils of relying too much on Washington. "I want the Federal Government to keep its cotton-pickin' hands out of our business unless there's something we absolutely can't handle," Wyman declared. The pitch did not work. Wyman failed to carry nine of the 14 towns in which Ford campaigned for him. Nor did he win in Manchester, where California's Conservative Ronald Reagan stumped...
...Rozelle rule is by no means the players' only complaint. Indeed, many of them voted recently to oust Players Association Executive Director Ed Garvey because they felt he had lost last year's strike by overstressing the Rozelle rule and other "freedom issues." More important, particularly to veterans, are the league's pension plan, insurance program and even the number of players allowed each team. Since the last contract expired in 1974, for example, the league has not contributed to the players' pension fund; they have now missed payments totaling $5 million. The players also want...
...conceivably save the convention, last week's disappointments probably doom Britain's latest attempt at a Northern Irish solution. They also make Merlyn Rees, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, even more vulnerable than before to attacks from Ulster's Unionists and British Conservatives. Their principal complaint: Rees' policy of holding suspects only on solid evidence and gradually releasing detainees has repopulated the countryside with alleged I.R.A. diehards. As an example of Rees' tolerance, Ian Paisley angrily charged -and the British army admitted-that Seamus Twomey, chief of staff of the I.R.A. Provisionals...
...Court Justice or will I be "guardian of Lymington" and chose to stay as the police chief of his home town. And ever since has shouldered the various petty sins of his constituency--their drunkeness, their rowdiness, their B&E's, their narrowness--without uttering so much as a complaint. Becoming slightly reflective and mellow now in his old age--due perhaps to the death of his wife (which he has accepted unquestioningly) but also no doubt to the daily administration, orally, of two jiggers of bourbon--he has become the kind narrator and apologist for the provincial orthodoxies...
...heightened when some of the more radical feminists insisted that lesbianism is the only logical answer to women's oppression and accused heterosexual feminists of collusion with the enemy. As Village Voice Columnist Jill Johnston put it in a rare terse statement, "Feminism at heart is a massive complaint. Lesbianism is the solution...