Word: complained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...natural for those who are getting the short end of the stick in any situation to complain. But it is not often that those who are wildly successful within the current system actively oppose it. Yet in spite of the way he made his money, Soros is now preaching a doctrine directly opposed to the fundamentals of modern economics which he has practiced so successfully...
While many students say the topical organization is interesting, others complain that they lose sight of the big picture when they study works of art in non-sequential order...
This article, however, wasn't written to complain about past injustices. It protests continuing inequalities. To quote one of the many actresses who have written to or spoken to me about this subject: "I don't really hold it against [various current staff] that they do not see the evils they support...It's maddening. I struggle with it all the time. I walked out of the Pudding show at intermission last year and (stereotypically, perhaps, but honestly) cried...
...Sony on the global radar had a nationalist side that was both contradictory and complementary. This you can sense in reading his best seller, Made in Japan, as well as in talking to him. When I would complain about the ambivalence, he'd grin and say, "Ohmae-san, it is the generation gap." A navy veteran, he returned from service to a Japanese economy that had been destroyed by the war, so for a long time he maintained a Japan-first frame of mind. His initial intentions were simply to make a contribution toward rebuilding his country from the ashes...
...unhappy place with Benjamin Netanyahu -- in the spotlight of Palestinian anger. At least 40 people were wounded Monday in clashes over the prisoner release issue, but Israel's freeing of petty thieves rather than political prisoners is in keeping with the letter of the Wye Accord. "Arafat may complain that it violates the 'spirit' of Wye, but there was no spirit in this agreement," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "The accord was negotiated in bad faith and neither side will do anything they're not compelled...