Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...bail hearing, Bruce Cutler, his longtime lawyer, complained that his client was the victim of a government "vendetta." With police locking Gotti up "every 10 to 12 months," protested Cutler, he was serving a life term "on the installment plan" even though he had not been convicted. The vendetta complaint was an exaggeration. But Assistant U.S. Attorney John Gleeson, who will prosecute the case, has been working full-time for five years to get Gotti...
Millions of Americans make this complaint, but how many do anything about it? Sleep is a biological imperative, but do people consider it as vital as food or drink? Not in today's rock-around-the-clock world. Not in a society in which mothers work, stores don't close, assembly lines never stop, TV beckons all the time, and stock traders have to keep up with the action in Tokyo. For too many Americans, sleep has become a luxury that can be sacrificed or a nuisance that must be endured...
...most common sleep complaint is insomnia. About a third of Americans have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, problems that result in listlessness and loss of alertness during the day. Most of the time the distress is temporary, brought on by anxiety about a problem at work or a sudden family crisis. But sometimes sleep difficulties extend for months and years. Faced with a chronic situation, insomniacs frequently medicate themselves with alcohol or drugs. Doctors warn that in most cases sleeping pills should not be taken for longer than two or three weeks. Such drugs can lose their effectiveness with...
...list of charges against the English department is long. One valid complaint is the department's disregard of the literature of minorities and colonized peoples. But the argument for increased representation of these literatures in the canon is complicated, and detracts from the more immediate question of the fate of American literature in academia. With the nearly catastrophic state of secondary education in America, our people are woefully ignorant of the shape of their own culture. A culture that cannot assume responsibility for itself certainly cannot assume responsibility for another. A country that cannot distinguish its intellectual history from...
...position at home. Old hands at this game, like former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, have warned the new crowd not to take over too many duties of the diplomatic corps, lest heads of state be confronted with the impossible task of responding to every nation that has a complaint...