Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Richard Lugar of Indiana, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee. He expects "considerable problems" with ratification. Some Senators, he says, will be worried about how much it will cost, and some will say the U.S. has conceded too much to the Russians to get a deal. Others will complain that Clinton is alienating Moscow. If those groups add up to 34 Senators, they could block the treaty. Some Senators want to make sure the Europeans will pay their bills and live up to their new commitments. "I can think of a number of ways people can get hung...
Several students enrolled in the course at Currier House (where I am a resident tutor) spoke to me last night about it, and I encouraged them to contact the Dean of Undergraduate Education and the Director of the Core program concerning the matter. Understandably, they are reluctant to complain to the professor or head teaching fellow, nevertheless it is clear to me that a thorough investigation is warranted...
...would be another strike against those Arctic Cats, Polaris Indys, Mountain Maxes and Skidoo Formula 500s--machines whose booming popularity seems to be matched only by the growing number of people who hate them. Antisnowmobilers complain that the motorized sleds, with their primitive but powerful two-cycle engines, are loud, dirty and dangerous and that they intrude on quieter users of public lands. Most national parks tightly restrict their use; California's Yosemite and Montana's Glacier national parks prohibit them outright...
Environmentalists complain that too many snowmobilers ride roughshod over park rules. Rangers concede they are hard-pressed, even with radar guns, to enforce the 45-m.p.h. speed limit or keep hot-doggers from tearing off roads and into the underbrush. "Snowmobiles bring out the youth in people," says district ranger Bob Seibert. "Many of these riders can't seem to resist running up and down the hillsides...
During the midterm crunch, many students complain about being stuck in the library studying. But only a few can say that they have literally been trapped there...