Word: complained
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...attention is President Bush's legislative agenda. Nearly all his initiatives have either stalled or run into trouble in Congress. His immigration-reform initiative, which would give illegal immigrants guest-worker status, appears to be going nowhere. Conservatives spurn it as a reward for illegal activities, while liberals complain that it doesn't go far enough. A welfare-reform bill, which would toughen work requirements, got caught in a tussle over whether to raise the minimum wage. Meanwhile, even with gasoline prices rising, the energy bill that was once a top priority for Dick Cheney is now limping along; some...
...this is nothing new. We all know about our mundane campus life. We complain about it unremittingly. We write articles in Fifteen Minutes longing for the Yale vibe and throw Harvard State University parties hoping to make the College into, well, a college. What is surprising, however, is that despite our incessant complaints, many among us exhibit a lack of willingness to effect positive change and an unabashed willingness to derail those...
This week, the Undergraduate Council has put forward a proposal to increase the student activities fee from $35 to $75 in order to fund more of the events we complain there aren’t enough of. Detractors, understand this: the only organization that has the ability to influence campus life on a large scale is the Undergraduate Council—University Hall is not directly accountable to students and never will cater to their desires. Moreover, campus life will not spontaneously improve by the force of our complaints; the need for the council to take on a larger role...
...take pride in our campus, or we can sit around and decry “government inefficiency.” We can take responsibility, or we can complain about campus life while student group funding falls. I hope we step up, and commit ourselves to our home, because no one can do that...
...police told us we had every right to stay. They began to put together a case against the general for forgery and fraud. He had allegedly done the same thing to two other would-be buyers, but they'd been too scared to complain about it. Nor was he a general, police said, merely a middle-ranking officer who had been kicked out of the air force for misconduct...