Word: complain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer the same ranchers complain endlessly to Madison that "his elk" are grazing on their cattle pastures. In winter they blame him when hungry elk and deer are busting their fences and devouring their haystacks. "It's not that folks don't like Jeff personally," says Herb Hughley, who operates the Valley Motel on Highway 13, which runs through Meeker. "But they don't like bureaucrats in Denver making laws about what they can and cannot do here...
...Yeah," he says, picking up a canape, "there are some nice hotels around. They're all pretty nice. Can't complain...
Judge's attitude towards her fate is admirable, even stoic. She is upset, thinks the rule was unfair as it applies to her, but blames no one. She didn't talk about the injuries that have plagued her career, she didn't complain...
...Razza al Qaraghuli was summoned to the Foreign Office and rebuked by British Assistant Under Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs Stephen Egerton. Iraq made no official reply, but Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz asked a gathering at the Foreign Policy Association in New York: "Why do they complain that we have killed their boys? Why did they send their boys in the first place...
...most cases legislators designed the rate reductions for such well-intended' purposes as spurring investment, helping struggling industries or boosting jobs. The overall effect has been to shrink the corporate contribution to federal revenue from more than 20% in the 1960s to 6% last year, leading critics to complain that individuals are now bearing a disproportionate share of the federal tax burden. Not all companies have benefited equally, however. Whirlpool for example, paid out 45.6% of its profits in taxes over the past three years, indicating that it received almost no big breaks...