Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some friends often complain to me about their computer mice, which they find disobedient after five or six months of use: the pointer seldom moves in the direction you want it to go. The source of the problem can often be traced to the dust and dirt that has accumulated inside of the device. So clean your mouse (or trackball) interior often. It's an easy job and it may save you a lot of eye strain or wrist pain...
Meanwhile, other council executives left out of the carefully selected Beys/Fine cabal pipe up to complain that they haven't been invited to executive board meetings that Beys and Fine have already held. And it turns out that Beys and Fine, by running the elections when they might run for executive office themselves, have violated a conflict of interest rule that the council passed just last spring...
Medical experts complain that the glowing press coverage is not justified because Profet got her physiological facts wrong. "While Profet has done a lot of library work, she's not comfortable with all aspects of reproductive biology," says John Rasweiler, associate professor of reproductive biology at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. "When you focus on some of her errors, many things seem to fall apart." Errors? "Every gynecologist knows the incidence of pelvic infections increases, not decreases, after the menstrual period," contends Dr. Charles Debrovner, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at New York University School of Medicine...
...friend Chris (I would have taken one of you, but I knew that you would all be busy editing) was a bit upset about the no free drinks policy, but I, as a non-drinker, had nothing to complain about. And the pate de foie gras was superb...
While many Americans have greeted President Clinton's national health care proposal with enthusiasm, two Harvard Medical School professors complain that the proposal would "obliterate private practice" and "complete the corporate transformation of American medicine...