Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Consequently, the 20 to 25 people who wish to play basketball often are squeezed into one court. The volleyball players are not pleased with this arrangement either, as they often complain about basketball players scuffing the floors...
Many pre-frosh hosts will have negative responses to these questions. Excluding workloads and the weather, there is perhaps no more popular topic about which Harvard students complain than class size and professors. Amidst the grumbling, only infrequently does anyone note that these so-called problems are much more a function of student, not Faculty, behavior...
Take, for example, class size. We complain about large classes, while forgetting that no one, not one single person, is required to take large classes; each person takes them voluntarily, based on his or her interests or the class's popularity. Students take Ec 10 because they have an interest in economics and want to explore that interest before committing to a concentration. Likewise with other classes: students take Justice or First Nights because they have no background in moral philosophy or classical opera, but want to learn about them...
...still valid--nothing has changed," Grossman said. "Grape workers who have organized under the UFW have been intimidated, physically attacked and harassed [by] grape growers who refuse to bargain in good faith for union contracts. Wages are poor, benefits are few if not non-existent. Workers frequently complain they're treated like animals by foremen and labor contractors...
...prices threaten to undermine conventional service. "The young crowd comes in sneakers, and doesn't have a lot of paper; all they really have is a good idea," he says. "When a Bell company shows up, they bring 20 pages of documents, 15 lawyers, hold a press conference and complain about the FCC before the TV cameras...