Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Members still complain of being shut out during busy times. Yet the slowing of AOL's once brisk cancellation rate and the acceleration of new arrivals seem to show that Case is at least one step ahead of the complaints. "These guys flirted with disaster," says Daniel Hart, a new-media strategist at Viacom. "Fortunately, they were smart enough to pull...
...defection of their supposed friends on the left. Liberal critics assert that the math test will stigmatize poor and minority students who don't perform well. They fret that schools will use national-exam results in determining who to promote to the next grade. And they even complain that the reading test discriminates against students who don't read English. Feelings run so strong in the House that virtually all members of the left-leaning black and Hispanic caucuses plan to vote against the tests this week. "If national testing went down in flames," says Chester Finn, a conservative analyst...
Your feet might hurt a little, but for $11.48 per hour, how much are you going to complain...
...suppose I shouldn't complain. After all, my popularity in Spain was due in large part to my California driver's license, to my ability to claim residence in the land of "Baywatch" and buxom, blond lifeguards. Store owners and custom officials would take a glance at my Los Angeles address and become chummy and friendly, eager to chat. "Harvard," on the other hand, triggered no special response and "Boston" merely elicited a blank stare...
...Builds character," Mom would advise me when I pouted about being "the reject in school who doesn't have a TV." I didn't complain much. "You knew it wouldn't get you anywhere, and increasingly, it became a mark of pride," she recalls...