Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been known as one to complain about the lack of real "news" on the Harvard campus. I have said that there has been very little which excites and motivates students on this campus to demonstrate, protest and rally for those issues which are important to them, those principles which cannot be infringed upon or ever taken away. On Thursday, December 7, close to 1,000 Harvard students proved me wrong...
...insisted that Adams does not oppose all types of randomization, offering such suggestions as "randomized salmonella" in the dining halls and "randomized grades" to satisfy those who complain of grade inflation...
...book, The Doles: Unlimited Partners. Smith is one of a small cadre of Dole friends and Senate staff members who have been doing a slow burn about the campaign's course. They call themselves the "Let Dole Be Dole Committee." They are among those who have heard Dole complain that the "campaign wants me to pander to everybody." It is they who suggested that Dole make a strong statement about race relations at the time of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March--an idea the campaign nixed, saying the topic was "too hot" to touch...
...dilemma: If I try to find a phone inside the Science Center or across the street from Johnston Gate to complain to the shuttle service, the shuttle might come and leave me behind. If I call Harvard's escort service, the controller will tell me to take the shuttle, or that there will be an hour's wait for the escort. So I walk home, cursing the shuttle powers-that-be, glancing behind me at two-minute intervals to make sure I'm not being followed by would-be rapists, and arriving at Currier House 15 minutes later cold, scared...
...million in unmet needs for equipment and $800 million in deferred maintenance and repairs, will lay off 5,000 to 10,000 employees next year, and not all of them will be bureaucrats. As it is, the care-giving staff is stretched so thin on some wards that quadriplegics complain of spending days in bed for lack of anyone to help them up. Gerald Barba, 39, a peacetime Navy veteran who broke his neck in a swimming accident, praises the dedication of the staff at the VA Hospital in the Bronx, New York, but says they are shorthanded. "Sometimes when...