Word: complaints
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Those rulings have reshaped American life -- which is precisely Bork's complaint. He accuses the recent court of liberal "judicial activism," using its power to accomplish social goals that have eluded -- or been opposed by -- legislatures. His own philosophy, he claims, is based on fealty to "neutral principles," the notion that judges should not formulate their legal principles based on the outcome they will produce in the particular case being heard. And yet, as his opponents point out, Bork's record makes him appear to be result-oriented in his own way: in almost all of the court rulings...
However, the extensive restoration work will not interfere much with the use of Sanders Theatre or Memorial Hall. "Only a small amount of our work is noisy," Riley said. "We worked all during final exams [last spring] without a single complaint...
...Shabbes! Shabbes! ((Sabbath! Sabbath!))" shouted the ultra-Orthodox demonstrators in Jerusalem. Their complaint: that movies are being shown in the holy city on Friday night, in desecration of the Jewish Sabbath, which begins at sundown. The marchers staged a peaceful rally at the Western Wall early last week, but come Friday dozens clashed with police. Authorities were forced to use tear gas and water cannons to break up the protests...
...more reasonable complaint is that Oates' taste for disaster frequently exceeds the appetite of her readers. This was not always so, especially in earlier novels like them (1969), a tale of desperate lives played out over 30 years, from the Depression to the Detroit riots of 1967. Timing helped; the agitated style of the book matched the panicky mood...
...Seaspray operatives and ISA agents, however, proved uneasy partners. They worked together out of a house in a small Honduran town, bickering over who was to be in charge. The feuding led to a formal ISA complaint about loose Seaspray security. Seaspray agents had set up a small military satellite dish outside the Honduran house, hiding it with only a plastic garbage bag. An operations security team, Yellow Fruit, flew a large commercial satellite dish to Honduras so that the Queens Hunter team could more convincingly play the part of rich Yanqui tourists...