Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nelan. "No administration ever learns that you cannot find leakers. Out of sheer frustration, they bring on the FBI, but never find out who is talking, and always end up looking like fools." Besides, says Nelan, the issue is not blown secrets or damaged intelligence assets. "Government officials always complain about security when stories make them look stupid. When the Washington Times runs an exclusive article detailing Chinese missile sales to Pakistan, the Administration gets angry: official policy is to continue good trade relations with China. But if the story is true, by law the U.S. is required to impose...
EAST MORICHES. N.Y.: Eleven days after Flight 800 plunged into the Atlantic, relatives of the 230 victims have taken the stage to complain of what they see as an intentional shift in the investigation, from retrieving of the bodies to reclaiming much of the 350,000 pounds of wreckage still at the bottom of the ocean. Although the number of relatives remaining at the Ramada Hotel on Long Island has dwindled in recent days, those left have sharp tongues for investigators. John Felice, a relative of one victim, said the families believe that bodies are being left underwater while divers...
...week after administrators changed Thayer Hall's locks to keep out all non-residents, students in the dorm report no more incidents of vandalism, but some complain that the cure has proved worse that the disease...
...Purists complain that the crowd the clubs attract--mostly young, white and male--have little appreciation for or awareness of the history of the blues. Noisy, beer-bottle-breaking audiences sometimes drown out acoustic musicians. "They're not paying attention. They're just out to have a good time," says Michelle Willson, lead singer of the Boston blues band Evil Gal. "I've had people come up to me at the House of Blues and ask, 'Do you think Dan Aykroyd is going to be here tonight...
...never seen a McDonald's (there are seven in Moscow), has yet to taste a Coke, watch cable television or own a telephone. She must trek miles to the nearest store for bread and milk. "There used to be order," she says. "Today there is no one to complain to in the village when something goes wrong or when we have questions. Of course I will vote for Zyuganov." Her monthly pension is 200,000 rubles (U.S.$40), and that buys almost nothing. "It's not only that," she says, pointing to brick mansions rising on the edge...