Word: complain
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Such an environmental disconnect may not be much of a mystery. Environmentalists complain that over the past two years industry groups have launched a coordinated advertising campaign to torpedo the 1997 Kyoto treaty, which requires industrial nations to reduce greenhouse emissions. More than $13 million has been spent on ads to block ratification of the treaty by the U.S. Senate. "The purpose of the ads was to convince most Americans that there isn't a problem or that it's too expensive to fix," says National Environmental Trust spokesman Peter Kelly...
...that hallowed end, it's your job to provide your kids with so much food, fun and comfort that they'll have nothing (much) to complain about. As long as you pack the contents of the toy chest, a stroller, booster seat, white-noise machine and night light, it's easy to placate babies and very young children, who are highly portable and often refreshingly inarticulate. Five-to-12-year-olds, on the other hand, require distraction from their two main travel pastimes: whining and bathroom humor. Fortunately, companies like Klutz and Rand McNally make great travel games and activity...
Cops began to complain that they were bored on the beat, reduced to taking daily joy rides on the few campus-area roads they were allowed to patrol. Officers started responding without sanction to calls in nearby areas of Cambridge, raising the ire of city officials...
Siegel's department is the site of at least three other junior Faculty departures this year. The economics and government departments also saw significant departures of assistant and associate professors. While some of these departing professors complain about Harvard's tenure system, others point to intense competition in the academic job market--especially the humanities--as the culprit...
...most agree that the reputation of HLS that is derived from these complaints is somewhat exaggerated, in part because students especially enjoy the chance to complain...