Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those eager to delve further have been rebuffed. When some Shanghai writers proposed a Cultural Revolution museum in 1986, Beijing said no. The leadership apparently fears that any thorough investigation would quickly run to criticism of the current regime and so must be prohibited. The outer boundaries of permissible complaint in China have been set. Anything may be criticized except that which really matters: the right of the party to rule. To today's leaders, the experience of the past demands a straitjacket on political dissent and helps explain why Deng so feared accepting the Tiananmen demonstrators' demand for free...
...each other infrequently. Similarly, far from signaling neglect, paying to deposit a three-year-old in another's care for a week away from home is often taken as a sign of affluence. In fact, since the economic reforms have raised the living standards of so many Chinese, a complaint about quan tuo is that without guanxi -- connections, a word I was to hear repeatedly -- no amount of wealth can secure a coveted sleep-away space...
Still, despite its reputation, the formal complaint is the only allegation of criminal activity that has been made against the club...
...suit further charges that the club, which has no official ties to Harvard, violated state liquor laws by serving alcohol without a license, and allowing minors and intoxicated people to drink. Those factors, according to the complaint, may have contributed to the alleged rape...
Stewart and Thomas L. Woods filed a complaint against HRE and the University in March, after the housing office refused to allow them to live together in Stewart's Harvard apartment without presenting a marriage certificate...