Word: complain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parents do," said Doreen, 27, an office clerk. But she and Hamann, a 41-year-old postal worker, now consider themselves lucky. "When you hear about all the young people today who can't afford any kind of home," Doreen Hamann says, "I guess we've got nothing to complain about...
...reluctant to take a stance that might complicate re-election. "The risk they are averting is not the loss of their seat," explains Republican Congressman Dick Armey of Texas, "but that they have to go home and face a rigorous challenge." A House Democratic leader says colleagues sometimes complain, "If I cast that vote, I've bought myself an opponent next time...
...applauded for your interesting and informative article on Kenneth E. Lee '89, who, as Undergraduate Council chair, serves as the primary representative of the entire Harvard undergraduate community. For years, we've been hearing the council complain about its lack of respectability and legitimacy as a social force on this campus. Its attempts to initiate or influence action on such issues as divestment, minority and women hiring, and the membership of final clubs are respectable, but, it claims, these cries for change have often fallen on deaf ears. We, as students, also have been perplexed as to why the administration...
President Bush promised during the election campaign to extend the VRAs when they expire next fall, but steel buyers like Caterpillar complain that prolonging the VRAs will boost costs. According to industry analyst Peter Marcus of PaineWebber, steel prices have risen 6% since early 1988, to $509 a $ ton, although after adjustment for inflation, they remain $40 less than five years ago. Critics are also concerned that a new set of VRAs will bring back Big Steel's complacency...
...Healy says that the same people who complain about his role also want the best school and health systems, the lowest property taxes and a halt to development...