Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many residents complain about common stereotypes of this lower-income neighborhood which are perpetuated by individuals who have never toured Area Four themselves...
...that kind of paycheck, many of the women who work at this and other auto plants are willing to shoulder some boorish behavior in addition to the tough, sometimes monotonous job on the line. Others are not. As early as 1992, female employees at Mitsubishi began to complain of sexual misbehavior on the factory floor. They reported obscene, crude sketches of genital organs and sex acts, and names of female workers scratched into unpainted car bodies moving along the assembly line. Women were called sluts, whores and bitches and subjected to groping, forced sex play and male flashing. Explicit sexual...
...more significant insight into America's criminal justice system is provided by the lawsuit filed against the Beverly Hills police department this week. The suit charges Beverly Hills cops with singling out the few black residents of the posh community for abusive treatment. Typically, many of the plaintiffs complain that they are frequently subjected to groundless, demeaning and sometimes violent traffic stops...
...demanded is a change of Japanese consciousness, and whether or not we succeed is up to the people." But what would bring about revolution? It is the Japanese way to face adversity with a simple appeal to gaman, which translates more or less as "hang tough and don't complain." Perhaps anguish over Japan's decay will push people beyond gaman and put wind at the back of radicals like Ozawa and other reformers. Failing that, Japan could turn into a graying has-been of the industrial world...
Children being pushed too hard may not be able to articulate their feelings, but the signs are there. They become emotionally volatile or complain of aches and pains. They can't sleep. They lose touch with their friends. Wetter believes the current flood of children being diagnosed with attention- deficit disorder may be misleading. Many of these children, he says, "just don't know how to express their frustration. By the time they are 16, many are burned out, antisocial and rebellious...