Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saliva index--measuring how much voters spit and complain--is high right now," Luntz said. "And the letter 'P' [as in president] lends itself to saliva...
Whether Cassella had managed to stay onside was a mystery even to some of the participants after the game. But neither team can really complain: Hartwick ended its day with a key road...
Which is a view that may just shed more darkness where obscurity is already the rule. While few scientists would argue that genes have nothing to do with IQ, fewer still are ready to conclude just how genes fit in. Specialists in the intelligence field complain that Herrnstein and Murray all but ignore what is known about brain development before and after birth. "When it comes to science, the book could have been written a hundred years ago," complains Harvard professor of education Howard Gardner. A pregnant mother's nutrition or drug abuse can have a crucial impact...
...looks after the couple's two children at night before settling down to her college- credit courses and then going out again to make evening visits to her patients. The couple's social life consists of an evening outing a month -- with the children. Young-Johnson doesn't complain, but she thinks it will not get better soon. "Everyone is picking up the slack," she says. "I don't want my kids to go without, so I just keep on pushing. The costs of everything keep going up. You're just going to keep working forever. I don't think...
...workers complain that for them expansion spells exhaustion. Throughout American industry, companies are using overtime to wring the most out of the U.S. labor force: the factory workweek currently is averaging a near record 42 hours, including 4.6 hours of overtime. Americans, observes Audrey Freedman, a labor economist and member of TIME's board, "are the workingest people in the world." The big-three automakers have pushed this trend to an extreme. Their workers are putting in an average of 10 hours overtime a week and laboring an average of six eight-hour Saturdays a year...