Word: complained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prefects] were a good thing, but they were living in [other] houses. Perhaps if we had a junior or senior living there, things would have been different. I would have been more inclined to go and whine and complain," he says...
...quite believe their old life is gone. Others refuse to budge until the government compensates them for their losses. Montserrat officials asked the British government to pay evacuees $14,800 for each head of household, $11,111 for each additional adult and $7,407 for each child, but islanders complain that even this is not enough to make a fresh start in a foreign land. Many are getting bills for mortgages on homes that no longer exist, and their debts are mounting. "What are we supposed to do?" said an irate policeman. "Leave here and go on the dole?" Last...
...appointed by Congress two years ago to get the city's finances in order and is headed by economist Andrew Brimmer. Only relatively minor agencies (including tourism and parks and recreation) remain under Barry's purview. Asked at a press conference what residents should do if they want to complain about potholes, Barry replied bitterly, "Call Dr. Brimmer...
...things considered, Tan Dun doesn't have much to complain about these days. The only thing that seems to exasperate him is when pigeonhole-happy journalists, mistaking him for yet another purveyor of souvenir-shop local color, claim that his music "brings East and West together." Nothing doing, Tan replies. "No East anymore, no West anymore. My purpose is to be flexible and freely flying around among all kinds of experience. Not to be driven by the wave of culture--fashion, trends, isms, schools--but to create my own unity...
...Organizers of the New York conference, a group called Beyond Hope (Hackers on Planet Earth) complain the public has a warped view of hackers. They stress most conference participants worm their way into computer systems to learn how they work so they can make them better, more secure. Beyond HOPE complains that a small number of renegades have ruined the image of the rest of them by doing things like taking down phone systems and swiping credit card numbers. Who could imagine these petty offenses would give the whole group such...