Word: complained
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...Blount in Alabama. Bush, then 26, would often turn up at campaign headquarters in Montgomery around lunchtime, recount his late-night exploits and brag about his political connections, according to a Blount campaign worker. All that made him slow to win over the Alabama crowd, who began to complain that Bush was letting things slide. C. Murphy Archibald, a nephew of Blount's who worked on the campaign that fall, told TIME that Bush "was good at schmoozing the county chairs, but there wasn't a lot of follow-up." Archibald, now a trial attorney in North Carolina, remembers that...
...actual steeped tea as opposed to tea bags, eating leisurely at each spot as opposed to being hustled hither and thither—got a bit lost. I almost wish I had eaten at each of these fine restaurants separately. But hey, I’m not about to complain about OD-ing on sugar and cacao—they’re probably the healthiest of the euphoria-inducing agents...
...steelworkers, bus drivers - is venting anger over Berlusconi's handling of the economy. Last week a one-day strike of some 150,000 doctors and other medical workers forced the cancellation of nearly 700,000 nonemergency operations and appointments. Doctors, who are planning a two-day strike in March, complain that the government hasn't renewed their contract and is trying to replace the national health-care system with a strictly regional one. The strike was just the latest in a lengthening list, including walkouts by Alitalia employees and public-transport workers upset about salary freezes and job cuts...
...Saddam had a variety of secret ambitions, and, Kay said repeatedly last week, the Iraqis were doing all kinds of things in violation of international law. But the unspannable gap between the Administration's vast prewar claims and a thin postwar reality has irritated some members of Congress. Democrats complain that they had been duped, and in private some Republicans say they feel the same. Ohio Senator Mike DeWine, a Republican on the Intelligence Committee, told the Columbus Dispatch that he was not sure he would vote to authorize war with Iraq if he had to do it all over...
...your profile to polishing your first-date etiquette are so sharp that this is a must read for any online dater. "Caffeine kills a date," writes Katz, who prefers a cozier atmosphere to the ubiquitous "coffee/interview date." He adds, "Do not talk about your dysfunctional family," and "do not complain about dating...