Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although they say the noise is troublesome, students interviewed say they have not called WHRB to complain...
Some athletes complain, in fact, that fellow students don't appreciate how hard they work or recognize how many of them excel...
...want to take advantage of the place, pull out the Unofficial Guide and decide on five activities that look interesting. Attend their next meetings. Don't like your life? Take steps to change it. But don't look back in the spring of your senior year, complain that you didn't get enough out of Harvard and expect sympathy...
...those of you who think that I am removed from the non-Crimson world and thus from any direct criticism, you weren't around when my roommate became obsessed with an article that she disagreed with about a matter dear to her heart and proceeded to complain well-nigh incessantly about it. For two weeks. To strangers, acquaintances and friends. Trust me, I hear all about the inaccurate, superficial Crimson that misquotes just about everyone...
...tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future,'' we remain a nation at risk. We are a nation, that is, whose 13-year-olds have average math skills that rank below those in 14 other developed countries, according to one 1991 study. We are a nation whose college professors complain that before they can teach the classics, they must teach the basics. And while nearly all American adults can read and write at a basic level, according to a 1993 Educational Testing Service study, fewer than half can use a bus schedule or accurately record car-maintenance information...