Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coordinate with the campaign or their message stops short of saying "Vote for Candidate X." The scandal in the latter case is that they come as close to saying it as they can get away with. They simply invite viewers to phone Candidate X's opponent and complain about his positions...
TIME: Israelis complain about the "cold peace" with Egypt. Doesn't that justify Israel's security concerns...
...early 1990s: retailing, then retail advertising, then newspapers dependent on such advertising suffered, and profits fell. Ridder insists that the financial pressures on all papers tend to be cyclical and that in fact Knight-Ridder has recently upped the percentage of revenue it spends in the newsroom. Journalists who complain about cost cutting, says Ridder, "have very short memories...
While OCS advertised the event as a great opportunity to learn about various career options, many students complain that smaller fields are under-represented at the forum...
This premise is, in other words, preposterous, yet Turow gets away with it. He does so in part by calling attention--before the reader can recognize it and complain--to how unlikely such a reunion of old friends within a single courtroom actually is. When Sonny asks her former lover if he plans to write a column about the upcoming trial, he jokingly responds with a question: "The Big Chill Meets Perry Mason...