Word: gripe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Medical Area District 65 organizers' main gripe is that their wages are below those of most area workers and that their raises have failed to match jumps in the cost-of-living. The most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics figures on Boston-area workers are from one year ago, but even these statistics indicate a higher area pay-scale than the July 1974 wage schedule of Harvard workers. For instance, last year's starting secretaries working for "service"-related nonmanufacturing "establishments" in Boston earned from $135 to $152 a week while a starting secretary at Harvard now earns from...
Lawyerly Lapses. For all the varied transgressions of Watergate, the principal gripe filed against lawyers is neglect of a client's case. And that can often be easily remedied by a telephone call from a local bar association. The offense that most often leads to discipline is also all too unexceptional: stealing a client's money. One Illinois lawyer who gave clients worthless checks and improper shares of personal-injury settlements was disbarred after the state supreme court determined that his actions amounted to misappropriation of funds. Attitudes toward offenses often vary. Tax evasion, for example, prompts little...
...think there's any momentum towards unionization here," Theodore G. Alevizos, librarian of Lamont Library, said last night. "People gripe about their salaries a lot, but it would really take a big push for a union to succeed at a place as big as Harvard...
Even if the winter is mild, there will be no shortage of other supply bottlenecks for consumers to gripe about. Motorists continue to encounter spotty shortages of gasoline, aggravated by continuing protest shutdowns by gas-station owners. The dealers, who are being charged more for wholesale gasoline by major oil companies, demand that the Cost of Living Council permit them to post bigger increases at the pump than the 1?-to 2.5?-per-gal. boosts they have been allowed...
...Beach merchants want to be quoted by name about the delegates' spending habits, but they agreed that both blue-jeaned Democrats and custom-tailored Republicans were tightwads. Doc Baker estimates that each Republican spent $35 a day in Miami Beach, and each Democrat $30. To hear some retailers gripe, the Democratic figure at least is a gross overestimate. The average Democrat, grumbles one businessman, "brought a set of underwear and a $20 bill with him and did not change either one." Merchants who relied on the Republicans to be big spenders were also disappointed. "We will be lucky...