Word: complained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airline executives know, where there's smoke, there's ire. Nonsmoking passengers complain about the poor air circulation on jetliners that forces them to inhale recycled smoke. Smokers feel like pariahs as their smoking sections keep dwindling. Taking the brunt of the bellyaching are flight attendants, who have to listen to both sides fume...
...aides complain that reporters cover his style, not his message. But he is remarkably successful in phrasing a message that others understand -- "keepin' the grass down where the goats can get at it," in the famous advice George Wallace gave him. ("We can't have no goats jumpin' in the air after grass," Jackson says.) Certainly his rivals have grasped his message, especially Richard Gephardt, who dramatized his anticorporate populism in a series of ads that led Michael Dukakis to say "That's Jesse's line." Jackson, picking up on that in a Des Moines debate, said he could...
...complain? Under my new name ALF -- for Alien Life Form -- I'm now a bigger star than Alpha Centauri. My half hour on Monday nights on the NBC-TV network sometimes hits the Top Ten in the Nielsen ratings (just like ours, except recorded electronically instead of with marshmallows and thumbtacks) and is playing in about 50 countries. The show is the story of my life in a typical suburban household -- working dad, nonworking mom, teenage daughter just out of braces, chirpy son who dresses up as a vegetable for the school play, and yours truly, the alien...
Wisconsin 7, Lowell 0 Wisconsin serves the Lowell players "some of the Midwest's greatest cheese. So what if it's a little green around the edges." The Chiefs complain of stomach aches throughout the game...
...U.S.S.R. and would have the means to talk to Gorbachev about the problem. An elderly person as President could strengthen Social Security during their term in office. A teacher could give lots of money to education. A psychopath could give lots of money to defense. No one could legitimately complain about not being represented anymore, because all would have an equal chance...