Word: complained
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...looked at the photos, I thought I should never again complain about having to wait in line an extra minute or two or having to shovel a snowy walkway or gripe when a store is out of my favorite item. The next time I get upset over trivial everyday things, I should step back and look at the big picture. JEFFREY N. ACHBER Laconia...
...Military Officers often complain privately that the American people don't fully appreciate the costs?human or economic?of the Iraq war. A new paper by Harvard budget expert Linda Bilmes and Nobel-prizewinning Columbia economist Joseph Stiglitz may help address that. It claims that the final cost to the U.S. could be $2 trillion?10 times as high as the worst-case scenario of $200 billion suggested by a White House official before...
...iodide in a dirty bomb. The agency is also spending $2.2 million on experimental anthrax treatments (although that money is not coming from the BioShield fund), and a contract for a new smallpox vaccine is expected in 2006. But more than a year into the program, drug companies still complain that they don't have a clear sense of what to develop and how much the feds will buy. Although HHS has formally identified four threats--anthrax, smallpox, botulinum toxin, and radiological and nuclear devices--that's only the first step. Requests for treatments must then be issued, competing drug...
...nearly a dozen governments, led by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia along with the World Bank and other financial institutions, have pledged more than $5.4 billion in funding for the long-term reconstruction of Pakistan, aid organizations say they aren't getting the backup they need. Private aid agencies complain that donors are tired of digging into their pockets after a string of disasters?from the 2004 tsunami to Hurricane Katrina. Action Contre la Faim, a French agency with branches worldwide, says that in the three weeks after the tsunami, it raised $475,000 in cash from American donors...
...heart of Quadlings’ perennial complaints is the apparently insurmountable distance that separates the three-house fortress-of-solitude from the rest of the Harvard campus. Shuttles, Quad residents complain, rarely run when they should and are frequently overcrowded. Even if we ignore the fact that this criticism applies to just about every transportation system on earth—Boston’s subway doesn’t run on time, neither do major airlines—it still oughtn’t carry much weight. For one thing, it’s not true; while shuttles do occasionally...