Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often as readers complain about Crimson headlines reporters themselves do the same, ranting "the morning after" about a headline that skewed the carefully balanced content of their article...
...perquisites after her departure from the board, launched a vendetta against him by rallying disaffected members of the corporate community and turning Clark and other directors against the chairman. Clark began heeding the advice of the self-styled "Committee for Excellence," which sent directors an anonymous letter in November complaining about Agee's opulent life-style and accusing him of selling off company assets to inflate corporate profits. Agee would later complain to friends, "Bill Clark made Velma a hero; he provided a forum for my detractors...
...independent Association for Children for Enforcement of Support (aces), calls the private agencies "vultures." And aces president Geraldine Jensen suggests that anyone who can afford to pay 30% of their support in fees could hire a lawyer: "At least then you can go to the bar association and complain. Here, you've got no recourse...
...contradictory. In 1936, he writes, "much of the American electorate welcomed (even expected) assistance from government in solving their problems but nonetheless remained skeptical of state power." As evidenced by the 1994 elections, that skepticism has apparently intensified; millions of voters benefit from Social Security and Medicare and simultaneously complain that government is evil and inept...
...application, I never spent any more time worrying about rooming and was one day informed that Canaday was going to be my home. Every first-year had the same probability of being assigned to a certain hall, though some are unarguably better off now. Those who are worse off complain only with a sense of good-humored indifference, as can be illustrated by a poster in Pennypacker 38 of a man running on a mountain path with the caption "a Harvard freshman en route to a Union dorm." After all, there is no one to blame, and we have...