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...goal, says spokeswoman Lisa Erk, "is systemic social change." This means forming a partnership between colleges and their communties to get bars off campus, halt two-for-one drink specials and increase alcohol-free social options. Students, of course, will complain (at Wisconsin the chancellor is sometimes called the "booze cop"). And so might townspeople: why can?t a responsible drinker enjoy a beer or two at the football game, or get a discount for stopping by at happy hour? That's what happens when you craft policy to deal with the worst offenders. The innocents have to sacrifice...
...between pork and missile defense (in the budgetary sense, nobody?s for the other white meat) but between items on Bush?s list - say, missile defense and the tax cut - that, since they can no longer repeal with a veto in the White House, they can at least complain shrilly about. And of course both sides will be accusing the other?s lock-box-raiders of "neglecting our nation?s seniors." Which neither side is actually doing - Social Security payouts are safe for at least a decade...
...inroads in the West Bank with its tight organization and the roadside bombs. Palestinian and Israeli officials expect that it is only a matter of time before A.L.F. activists begin to fight--probably by shooting at Israeli settlers on isolated West Bank roads. Even if Saddam's media complain that Syria and Jordan won't let his army cross their territory to invade Israel, he is already providing the funding for the manpower necessary to strike a blow...
...camps, dining staff and students, do a fair amount of complaining about each other. At least I imagine that they complain about us, because we sure do enough talking about the “Frying Pan Girls” and “Can-I-Have-a-Roll Boy.” (It takes a special student to acquire one of our nicknames, or at least an act of exquisite stupidity.) We must be the more misunderstood of the two groups, the students never suspecting that we are intelligent human beings who might know a thing or two about music...
...jobs, that number comes from an 11-year-old study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute that economists complain wildly inflates the employment potential. "It's just absurd," says Eban Goodstein, an economist at Lewis and Clark College, who predicts the real job growth will be less than one-tenth that number...