Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other ways too the great solidarity of the immediate aftermath has frayed and torn over time. Family members of adults who were killed, for instance, complain that their loved ones became virtually invisible as the media focused on the horror of the 19 children who died. "I am so tired of hearing about the 19 children," says Tina Tomlin, wearing a button with the picture of her smiling 46-year-old husband Rick, who was killed in the Murrah building. "There were 168 people killed, and they were all somebody's children. I can't even look at my mother...
...charging sexual harassment against the network's top West Coast executive, Don Ohlmeyer. McDermott's charges have been seen by some as a cynical ploy to free her for the ABC job. Insiders say Jack Welch, chairman of NBC's parent, General Electric, even contacted Eisner personally to complain about ABC's role in the episode...
...much could be found to complain about in this match from Harvard's perspective. The real challenge, however, will come today in a matchup against the always dangerous University of Pennsylvania squad...
This is why it infuriates me when people in the River houses--students who received one of their four choices--complain about the administration "taking away free choice" and "not treating us like adults." Those of us who were randomized under the old system never got any choice to begin with. We were all given the facade of choice, but when the slip came in, all semblance of determining our own fate-went out the window...
...other method involves actively becoming a part of the structure which the government refuses to implement. Plenty of people seem to care about certain policies more than enough to complain about who is in office on the basis of those policies. But relatively few complainers move much toward becoming human replacements for the dollars which a new budget has snatched--or will snatch--away from public programs and support structures. In my view, there are two kinds of political disillusionment--disillusionment accompanied by helplessness, which I came to know all too well and disillusionment accompanied by corrective action, even...