Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right back to the way it was," she says. The inspector, who has been visiting California nursing homes for years, told TIME her complaints are regularly ignored because of the "cronyism" that exists between the state overseers and nursing-home operators. "Once we write down violations, the nursing homes complain and our superiors keep us from going back or else they dismiss our citations," she says. This has led to "hopelessness" among inspectors like herself, she says...
...same zinc lozenges (zinc gluconate glycine) that in adults reduce the duration and severity of a cold do nothing for kids. Youngsters don't take to zinc either: most complain about the taste; some develop diarrhea. Scientists can't explain why zinc doesn't work for kids-or why it does for adults...
...only one in the narrow political calculations of its major political players: a Republican Congress with a slim majority desperate to play to the activists who will turn out in the fall, a White House too distracted and declawed by scandal to fight and an electorate too content to complain much...
...butchers in Beijing" about all manner of failings, aiming their blows as much at Clinton as at China's communist die-hards. Antiabortion activists rail at China's forced abortions. Exiled crusader Harry Wu charges China with harvesting human organs from executed prisoners for sale. Human-rights advocates complain that Clinton is ignoring systemic repression; partisans of the Dalai Lama call for a free Tibet; labor advocates bang the drums about unfair competition. Even businessmen courted by Clinton complain that China's markets are still closed. It makes for great sound bites when they all clamor to know what Clinton...
WASHINGTON: Before President Clinton left for China -- and nine days of certain controversy -- he made sure his last official act was hard to complain about: IRS reform. "He wants to stay out front on this issue," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "The Republicans got ahead of him with all those emotional hearings last year, and now he can't afford to disagree with them...