Word: complained
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...linear but miasmic. Interstate-5 passes near the heart of downtown, making it seem that this freeway provides guidance to the pulse points of the country's second-largest city. But downtown is only one of many gathering places in the Southland, a fact lamented by many visitors who complain that the city has no center...
...action is good or bad in itself than on whether the agent had a right to act that way. But for such a system to function, it sems crucial that citizens know and be able to defend their liberties. As I spend hours a day listening to people complain of injustice, I am struck by simultaneously-low voter turnout, daily grumbling overheard on the train about mandatory jury duty and ubiquitous public opinion polls that show Americans are unhappy with their goernment, their society and their lives. Make no mistake: it is not the endless calls for help that bother...
...Harvard president emeritus Derek C. Bok writes in his most recent book, The State of the Nation, "[T]he United States is constantly at risk of having its people regard their government merely as a service which they purchase with their taxes and which they are entitled to complain about loudly when it does not deliver good value for their money." I argue that it is more than a risk. Such a mindset has set in, and as a result civic society has withered, and along with it, citizen satisfaction. Divorce rates, cheating on exams and tax fraud have...
...least the idea of Oxford provides isolated relief against reality, even if the functioning of the university itself does not. No wonder so many complain bitterly, but simultaneously feel such loyalty to the idea of Oxford: it tempts us with the myths we want...
...Loneliest Town on the Loneliest Road in America"), Walter Cuchine heard news of the loud booms and set out a coffee can to collect donations for an antiaircraft gun. "Last year one concussion knocked a Senator off his podium here, but whenever you call the commanders to complain, they say, 'Did you get a tail number?' Of course not. Maybe if we were able to shoot one down, though...