Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elite," like to complain. We complain that the government does everything wrong. We watch television shows that complain about how hard it is to be a teenager. We complain about the leaders of the past and note how we would have handled things so much better. We complain because the world doesn't run the way think it should. We speak from the wisdom afforded by 20 years of purely classroom experience...
Goaded into the race by friends and a wife who "was tired of hearing me complain," this political neophyte says he wants an end to business as usual. That business, says McClain, is represented by incumbent Oxley, who he believes has been in office "so long" that he has lost touch with his constituents. It's art vs. politics...
...have to admit that it did not strike me as that big a deal at first. As I was sitting in the Kirkland House Dining Hall, one of the heads of Room 13, a campus peer counseling service, approached me to complain about a column in Fifteen Minutes titled "Prank Files." She explained that the author of this column, William L. Kirtley '97, had prank-called Room 13, telling the counselor there that he was depressed over Harvard's fall to number three in the U.S. News and World Report rankings...
...They complain that the referendum as written would permit almost anyone to buy marijuana. For one thing it would apply to patients suffering from "any" ailment for which marijuana provides relief, without specifying which complaints that would cover. As a picture of things to come, the opponents point to the Cannabis Buyers' Club in San Francisco, founded in 1991, which at one time claimed 12,000 members. Until Aug. 4, when state narcotics agents raided and closed down the club, it sold pot to anyone who was desperately ill. And maybe to other people. Police say that during...
...whom do we want to manage our wildlife--professionals or people with a hidden agenda?" asserts Don Clower, chairman of Idaho's Sportsmen's Heritage Defense Fund. In Idaho, foes of the bear proposition count the Governor and nearly all state legislators on their side, and initiative backers complain they are being outspent 4 to 1. In Michigan as in Idaho, opponents contend that abolishing spring hunting, baiting and hounding would lead to an onslaught of bear problems and thwart hunters...