Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hatchet wielder is the World Bank's new president, former Republican Congressman Barber Conable, who took office a year ago. Last week Conable was facing a revolt of staff members, who lodged a formal complaint with the bank's administrative tribunal, a seven-member body of distinguished jurists from around the world. "We have a lot of worried and unhappy people here at the bank," says Christopher Redfern, chairman of the World Bank Staff Association. The 75% of the employees who are from abroad are especially nervous. Reason: some of those laid off by the bank could lose their visas...
...gives me little pleasure that one of the first acts I will undertake as an alumnus of this College is to compose a letter of complaint. Nevertheless, I feel very strongly that I must register my displeasure with the selection of the Commencement Speakers for my graduation...
...coming, as they did earlier this month. A reporter mildly challenged him about earlier speeches in Iowa. Biden responded with his devilish Jack Nicholson grin, a sign that a wisecrack is winning the struggle to get out. Then came his staccato chuckle -- heh-heh-heh -- and the zinger, a complaint that the newspaper had been too cheap to send the reporter to Iowa. As he often does, Biden later apologized...
Unaccustomed to such a hands-on director, the actors at Cleveland's Great Lakes Theater Festival were perplexed at first, afraid that the boss might stifle their creativity. "I should have heard those lines, and I didn't," was his constant complaint during rehearsals of Broadway, a melodrama he had first directed in 1926. But then they remembered the name behind that stern voice. "Hey," said one young actor, "this is George Abbott! We know it's going to work...
Pamela Foster charged Loury with assault,claiming in the complaint she filed with thepolice that she lived with the K-School economistin a penthouse suite in the South End of Boston.In the complaint, Foster accused Loury of beatingher severely with a dangerous weapon, his "shodfoot...