Word: bemoans
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About this time of year, it becomes fashionable to trash Harvard's admittedly old-fashioned schedule. In the midst of long finals and lengthy papers, weary students bemoan an irregular academic calendar that imposes exam period after winter break. But there are many underappreciated facets of the schedule that benefit undergraduates, and few reasons to change--other than mere conformity...
...While the law of the free market has become incontrovertible in post-Cold War Washington, the intelligence community is still prepared to throw out some observations that don't exactly parrot market orthodoxy. For one thing, they explicitly bemoan the loss of one of the key policy levers of the Cold War era - the targeted projection of U.S. economic power. If it weren't for the Marshall Plan, most of Western Europe would have gone communist at the end of World War II - at the ballot box. Plowing billions of dollars of aid and investment into Europe also created...
...form of a failed election attempt or an unfulfilled goal. As such, we fill our void of Good Guys with an overflowing reserve of Martyrs. Martyrs, after all, are safe to praise. They pose no threat to our own ambition, we can safely embrace them with compassion and bemoan the injustices that have been committed against them--and maybe, hopefully, regret and reflect upon our own compromised values...
...while students bemoan the loss of the Scour Exchange platform, at least two companies are now bidding for Scour's assets, hoping to revive the company's software and tap into the revenue potential they say still exists in the online digital media sphere...
...fashionable to be a press-shy celebrity--to bemoan the loss of one's privacy while simultaneously courting the cameras at movie premieres and fashion shows. But Sade comes by her press shyness honestly. On the Chris Rock Show, she just sings her song and never says a word. Like a comet making its celestial rounds, she appears in the star-studded celebrity heavens infrequently and almost only when she has new songs to perform...