Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Prosecutors complain of a pervasive talk-show mentality...
...fans like to complain about too much shill in sports, where even the scoreboard has a sponsor. As it stands, a relief pitcher in baseball can't enter the ninth inning without announcers mentioning Rolaids or the NYNEX "call to the bullpen." If this keeps up much longer, expectorating on the field will have a sponsor. But there's a good side to corporate ownership. It gives the fan a new way to enjoy the game: buying shares in the company that owns the team...
Owners of small businesses complain that the mandate would force them to cut wages and lay off employees. The White House until recently believed their opposition could be neutralized by support from their employees, as well as $ from big companies and unions, which would benefit from the Clinton plan. As a result, Hillary Rodham Clinton last year dismissed small-business plaints by saying, "I can't be expected to save every undercapitalized entrepreneur...
...love what you do, why complain?," he said...
...more mixed grades for his work as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which established the federal guidelines that require judges in all parts of the country to hand down roughly equivalent sentences for comparable crimes. Many judges are furious over the guidelines, which they complain force them to issue sentences that do not take into account the differing circumstances of individual defendants. Because they mandate lengthy sentences for first-time drug offenders, the guidelines are also blamed for contributing to the huge growth of the American prison population...