Word: complain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best of totalitarian traditions, the officers of the club recently decided to change some rules. The officers decided to eliminate the lottery and to change the selection process. Now, complain current members, the four officers alone choose all the new members...
Rich replied, saying "If you write for a publication with a demanding audience, they will complain vociferously. I feel I'm accountable all the time...
...intends to or not, the INS is doing a phenomenal job of creating a public backlash against the newly legalized aliens. By playing up the dichotomy between their status and the status of H-1 aliens when there is no need to do so, the INS encourages people to complain about the government aiding those who snuck across the border in violation...
Critics carp that Brody can be a joyless nudge. More seriously, they complain that she tends to make oracular pronouncements when scientists are still debating an issue. "If I don't sound positive," responds Brody, "people can readily discount what I say. But I'm ready for change." She used to warn against eating fatty fish. "Now I tell them they can. The evidence has changed. Same goes for olive oil." But most of her colleagues and even doctors heap on only praise. "She has done more than any other journalist to bring accurate information about nutrition and health...
...cannot be completely and immediately executed). Management experts speak of skunk costs (money that cannot be recouped when a project is aborted), tin cupping (when one corporate division begs for management support) and deadheading (bypassing a senior employee in order to promote someone more junior). Computer aficionados complain about vaporware (software that has been announced but not yet produced). Advertisers refer disparagingly to white bread (consumers with bland tastes). And all business executives try to avoid a Mickey Mouse. That's a major effort that produces paltry results...