Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...urging of the DEA, Danish police were listening. They heard Villabona and Bennett order 2,000 lbs. of cocaine and arrange its distribution. They also heard Cali bosses complain that Villabona was $3.3 million behind in his payments. Indignantly, he asked his handlers to prove that he was short. One of them detailed his transactions -- and the incriminating evidence was taped...
Consumers complain that calls from these "electronic salesmen," who get their names by purchasing mailing lists, constitute an invasion of their privacy. They are concerned that solicitations that continue even after a recipient hangs up can have serious consequences for fire stations and emergency rooms, which the dialers can reach unintentionally. What irks people most is having to pay for solicitations they never asked for. Those with car phones and pagers are charged for every minute they use a telephone line, whether or not they initiated the call, and fax-machine owners pay up to 10 cents a sheet...
...everyone buys this theory. Some complain that debt is more of a distraction than a disciplinarian. Managers can become so absorbed with cutting costs and staying one step ahead of creditors that they often neglect day-to-day operations. Some companies, including Harcourt, appoint executives whose sole duty is to manage debt. Says Peter Jovanovich: "The Superman approach doesn't work. If the CEO tries to do it all, deal with the bankers and run the business, he'll probably do it all badly...
...presidential nomination, but could he unite his party? Some of the Democratic Governors elected last Tuesday favor limited government. Cuomo too will bow to reality and cut New York's budget. "They'll wake up," he says of his constituents. "They rail about spending but they will complain even more when it's cut, when their libraries close and other services decline...
Garry Wills has carved out a substantial career as a social critic by cutting against the ideological grain. Conservatives find him too liberal, and liberals complain that he is too conservative. Similarly, scholars think of Wills as a journalist, and journalists often feel that his work is unnecessarily academic...