Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brought a bittersweet experience to the employees, who hold most of the company's stock under a profit-sharing plan initiated by Lawrence: they gained a windfall but lost control. The process started last December, when a still anonymous bid brought into focus what had been just a complaint from a few retirees: that U.S. News was shortchanging departing staffers by sharply undervaluing the company's assets. These include a high-technology typesetting company and a pending hotel-and-office complex (started as a joint venture with Zuckerman) on U.S. News's 3.5-acre headquarters site...
Jackson's specific demands can apparently be accommodated if the resulting compromises are couched in rhetoric that gives the civil rights leader a face-saving reason to accept them. His complaint that the party's presidential primary rules are unfair, sometimes awarding a candidate far fewer delegates than his electoral strength would warrant, is valid. Ironically, it was Mondale last week who complained that the rules were stacked against him in California, where his share of the delegates was far less than the percentage of votes his delegates received. A new party commission to reform the rules once again...
...must stop supporting the rebels in El Salvador, send an estimated 10,000 Cuban and Soviet advisers home, cut back their oversize military arsenal, and restore the civil rights that were suspended when the government proclaimed a "state of emergency" in March 1982. In response, Ortega stressed his primary complaint: the Administration's continued backing of the contra guerrillas, who are fighting to topple the Sandinistas...
...time telling people not to have it," says Neurosurgeon Poletti of Massachusetts General Hospital. Although operations to destroy nerves can provide immediate relief, the benefits rarely last more than six months to a year and may be followed by intense, burning pain that is worse than the original complaint. Surgery is often reserved for terminal-cancer patients. For such patients, neurosurgeons have devised delicate operations to cut nerves causing local pain, and even to sever nerve tracts in the spinal cord and brain. In some instances, rather than destroy nerve tissue, doctors can implant electrodes into the spinal cord...
...difficult as defining a University policy on free speech will be establishing procedures for disciplining students who do infringe on speakers rights. In 1972, Herrnstein filed a complaint against the students under existing University guidelines--which are still in force--but the cases were eventually dropped when the panel investigating the incidents remained deadlocked...