Word: complained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...break with the past, the political rewards outweighed the risks. A firm show of independence never hurt any political leader, and even the center-right opposition parties were obliged to approve the President's action. As for Mitterrand's Communist allies, they were in no position to complain without appearing subservient to Moscow. From Greece, where he was visiting, Party Secretary-General Georges Marchais dismissed any thought of leaving the government over the spy affair...
People tend to complain about things they can't do much about lack of height, disease, baldness. One doesn't often hear gripes about the way a person's sex chromosomes happened to link up. There are tomboys and effeminate men, but most work with what they have. Richard Raskind worked against what he had for many of his 42 years, trying to figure out how to react to the nagging feeling that he wanted to be--ought to be--a woman...
When tenants of the fresh Pond Apartments--commonly known as Rindge Towers--came to last week's council meeting to complain that they were being unjustly forced out of their apartments, Jason J. Timmons, executive vice-president of the Federal Management Co., which runs the apartment complex, was absent because of illness...
...career students work habits are uniformly conscientious. Whether or not they feel that the skills and theory the Kennedy School teaches them will be useful in a public policy career, they still need to get jobs. Students may complain about the workload and the new emphasis on quantitative skills, but as Rob feels, "I'm getting something out of the time I'm putting into...
...consistency. Consistency breeds tradition. And tradition breeds devotion. It has changed very little over the last century. But now, salary escalation, free agent compensation, the infamous strike and those sophisticated electronic scoreboards are said by some to have begun to threaten baseball's purity. So people begin to complain about the sport as a whole...