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Word: complaints (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complaint that professors teaching in the Summer School typically express about the courses is their brevity--summer session is slightly more than half a regular semester...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Profit-Making Venture, Academic Program or Both? | 7/25/1989 | See Source »

...questionable wisdom" of bestowing absolute authority on a single person was brought up in passing by U.S. district court Judge Frank McGarr in 1977. But he used that phrase in the process of rejecting a complaint by Oakland A's owner Charlie Finley that Kuhn was wrecking him financially by arbitrarily keeping him from liquidating his team a player at a time. Judge McGarr ruled, "So broad and unfettered was the commissioner's discretion intended to be that the owners provided no right of appeal, and even took the extreme step of foreclosing their own access to the courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Darkening Cloud over Pete Rose | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...inspector questioned him about Calvert's love life, he was transferred to a new assignment -- at the sewer plant. Says Thomas: "That's where they find body parts." Calvert, who left Detroit to become head of the department of public works in Fontana, Calif., in January, filed her formal complaint with the Wayne County prosecutor's office, which announced it would investigate the alleged misuse of police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Birth to A Scandal | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...from 21 conservative supporters to underwrite the project. Window sold only 12,000 copies, but the lost investments turned into tax write-offs for the backers. Gingrich's wife Marianne was paid a salary of $11,500 for her work in helping establish the partnership. Democrats filed a formal complaint about the book deal with the House ethics committee in April; Common Cause joined in last month, and Gingrich expects the issue to be taken up this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans' Pit Bull | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...Black students Cochrane and Williams decide to file a formal harassment complaint against Cambridge police, citing dissatisfaction with Healey, who they say failed to follow through with his promises...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pluralism Enters the Mainstream | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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