Word: complained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...customers, however, complain about curdled sauces or curling asparagus tips. "It's always delivered just right," says Manhattan investment banker Harry Ozawa. He treats himself to home-delivered delicacies two or three times a week. Why? Because, explains Ozawa, it's so much nicer than eating pizza every night. At $125 or so a pop, it should...
...child continued after their divorce. The case was transferred to Dixon's jurisdiction in November 1985; subsequently, Morgan three times charged Foretich with sexually abusing their daughter and demanded that the court curtail his visits. Each time, Dixon ruled that Morgan's proofs were "inconclusive." She and her attorneys complain that he refused to allow testimony that corroborated the charges...
...restaurants, meanwhile, women find it difficult to play host at a business lunch or dinner, since waiters typically assume that the male guest will choose the wine and pay the bill. Female travelers also complain that hotels can be careless about revealing room numbers and too often place women in insecure locations, such as ground-floor rooms without door chains or peepholes...
Valentin Falin, head of the Central Committee's international department, conceded last month what Moscow has long denied: that the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact included a secret protocol that called for the Soviet takeover of the Baltics. But Baltic deputies serving on a commission to study the pact complain that Moscow representatives want to stop short of drawing the necessary conclusions about the legal standing of their republics in the union. Says Estonian Popular Front leader Rein Veidemann: "We must solve the Baltic question and recognize the fact that we were first occupied and then annexed." But what would belated recognition...
...very different. The sharks eat the angelfish. The Australian hairy-nosed wombat stays in its cave, and the South American smoky jungle frog hunkers down beneath a leaf, all tantalizingly hidden from the prying eyes of the roughly 110 million Americans who go to zoos every year. Visitors often complain that as a result of all the elaborate landscaping, they cannot find the animals. But this, like almost everything else that goes wrong these days, is a signal that America's zoos are doing something very right...