Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since the aggrieved students can't complain about Harvard having no tenured Latino professors, they have to demand "tenured U.S. Latino professors." Where will is stop? When will they be content...
Last week Woolsey was on the Hill to defend the budget for the intelligence community he oversees and to complain about spending cuts. He did not mention the current budget figure of $28.5 billion -- which is supposed to be secret -- but argued that it should not be cut again. Though the U.S. has the best intelligence organizations in the world, he said, their real spending had been reduced 14% since 1990. Their capabilities, he warned, are now at a level "where we are skating on thin ice on a warm...
...Israeli troops to begin leaving and Palestinians to assume self-governance in the Gaza Strip and Jericho as a first step toward autonomy throughout the occupied territories. On Feb. 9, the two sides signed an agreement settling most of the security issues but leaving some details undecided. Palestinians complain that the Israelis have been shying away from anything suggesting they were giving the Palestinians the appurtenances of statehood: they did not even want to let the Palestinians issue their own postage stamps. Arafat's aides say Rabin seemed to think time was on his side; the longer an agreement took...
Probably because residents of Leverett didn't request the cereal vehemently enough. If you're cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, complain to your dining hall...
Stories about her pettiness are legion: the time in Boston she telephoned the management of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to complain that the Ritz- Carlton's room service had put peas in her pasta; the time when, feeling chilly while riding in a limo in Southern California, she used the cellular phone to call her management company in New York, which phoned the limo service, which phoned the driver, who turned the air conditioning down; the time in New York when she and Luciano Pavarotti competed to see which could arrive later for a dress rehearsal. Battle has a penchant...