Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...judicial system is so clogged by the volume of claims that desperate judges are trying hundreds of cases at a time. Some critics complain that greedy lawyers are reaping exorbitant fees in the process. As a result, Weinstein has set a limit of 20% on contingency fees allowed lawyers for hardship settlements paid by Manville. Trust officials say they may have to handle as many as 300,000 claims...
When I swore to defend my country, Mikhail Gorbachev was still our greatest enemy. So was Syrian President Hafez Assad. The Reagan Administration supported Saddam Hussein in his war against Iran, and did not complain when he gassed thousands of his citizens. Or when he bombed one of our ships, killing 37 men. I believed...
...security and preferential tax treatment in a united Germany. For the second time in two weeks, public transportation was crippled and garbage trucks blocked the entrances of department stores, as bus drivers joined sanitation workers, nurses and secretaries for rallies in at least 10 cities. The demonstrators complain that their salaries, which average about half those in the West, are not enough to cover the higher prices being charged for food and other basic items since July 1, when the West German mark became the official currency of both Germanys...
...alternatives to pesticides. Big Green supporters charge that CAREFUL simply restates existing pesticide laws. At the same time, the timber industry has united behind the New Forestry Initiative, which it says would ban clear- cutting only in old-growth forests while reducing the practice 50% in all others. Conservationists complain that it would still allow wholesale razing as long as one tree an acre was left standing. They call the plan Big Stump...
Colliding agendas inevitably throw up questions of whose job is more important and who's in charge. Often the struggle for answers plays out in tussles over house chores. Women frequently -- and justifiably -- complain that most of the drudge work falls to them. The view from the male side, however, can be revealing. Ellen Galinsky, who as co-president of Manhattan's Families and Work Institute often attends corporate seminars, says that when women complain that their mates don't help, the men seethe. "The men say, 'Every time I help, she tells me I'm doing it wrong...