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Word: complained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...School students feel they are on the bottom of the list, University-wide." Carriedo continues, reflecting the views of other students who complain that the University administration ignores the Ed School because its graduates earn less than the graduates of the Law, Medical, and Business schools...

Author: By Kelly S. Goode, | Title: Educating the Educators | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

Secondary roads off the interstates are often in much worse shape. In eastern Kentucky, where pockmarked roads suffer a relentless pounding from overloaded coal trucks, drivers bitterly complain that most of their tires blow out before they wear out. The main road between Baton Rouge and Shreveport, La., is so bumpy that freight haulers avoid it by going some 130 miles out of their way through eastern Texas. Says Trucker John Wooley, a former rodeo cowboy: "That road just tears a rig apart. It's like riding a bucking bronco." In California, Highway 101 outside San Jose is full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time to Repair and Restore | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...lottery 100-per-cent above-board." Krasznekewicz said, adding that "people are always looking for something to complain about...

Author: By Mark L. Goldstein, | Title: Adams House Lottery Results Questioned by Several Residents | 4/17/1981 | See Source »

Standing close to the wall, he complained about the press, which had been griping about onlookers getting in the way. ABC Cameraman Henry Brown had protested that the press area had been "penetrated" by people who were "interfering with our work." Replied a man whom Brown assumed was a Secret Service agent: "We'll try to do something." A.P. Radio Reporter Walter Rodgers pushed his way along the wall, extending his fishpole mike, when he heard the young man complain about the reporters: "They ought to get here on time. They think they can do anything they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Shots at a Nation's Heart | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...best coach I've ever been associated with." Florida freestyler John Morse says. "People do complain about him wanting 100 per cent all the time, but in the end everyone always returns to train with him because he is so good...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Two Sides of the Same Coin | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

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