Word: complaints
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...broke down, the technologists turned to patients, who also needed a little convincing. Placing exam-room computers on moving carts was an important early step, so that physicians didn't have to turn away from the patient to enter data into the terminal. This helped resolve a common patient complaint, that electronic records seem impersonal...
...Milton and other great authors who creatively recycled mythic themes and characters, and also a shameless copyright bully, who has brought charges against one of her biggest fans, Steven Vander Ark, for his plans to publish a Harry Potter lexicon. By the standard of Rowling’s complaint, Joseph Campbell could not have published the invaluable “Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake” five years after Joyce published his masterwork. The “act for the encouragement of learning” is being used to empower an author to censor an unapproved...
...biggest complaint I heard was the lack of real student involvement in the process and the way it was sprung on us in full form without the option for adjustment,” Bellow said...
...Harvard of a half-century ago was still an ivory tower, complacent in its detachment from the world. This ceased being the case in the 1960s, although it wasn’t fully understood by President Nathan M. Pusey ’28, whose main complaint about the students who disrupted ideas and traditional order in the late 1960s was that they had execrable manners (so bad, indeed, that he called the police hours after their occupation of University Hall, when a little amount of empathy and patience would have avoided the tribulations and histrionics that followed). The University...
...play the role of symbol for the many forces that have seized her case as a major cause. The storm broke out last Thursday, when France's national media picked up on the unpublicized April 1 verdict annulling the couple's 10-month marriage on the husband's complaint that his wife's prenuptial assurances of virginity were false. The judge had reasoned that the wife's claimed virginity constituted "an essential quality decisive for the consent of her husband to wed." That, protestors argued, reduced the woman - and by extension all women - to the status of goods whose acquisition...