Word: complained
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...Some students blame not only inadequate counseling but also unsupportive campus environments for undergraduate mental-health problems. At Columbia, students complain about days-long waits for counseling appointments. One sophomore, who saw a fellow student, Andrea Melendez, fall eight stories to her death last month, was unable to do homework afterward. Yet he was denied an extension for a major paper due the next day. "I was told I'd had two weeks to work on it," he told Time. In a recent editorial, the Columbia Daily Spectator demanded greater sensitivity for students' needs. "Students receive psychological support from...
...sent many congressional Democrats reeling, could face the toughest confirmation hearing of any Cabinet member. Analysts predict Ashcroft will be confirmed in the end - Senators are unlikely to blackball someone who was until recently one of their own - but some suspect he may wish he hadn't been. Democrats complain the former Missouri senator embodies far too many of their least favorite qualities: As of Thursday Ashcroft's nomination is opposed by pro-choice advocates, environmentalists, civil rights organizations and labor groups. If resources run thin and activists are forced to choose one nominee to oppose with all their might...
...deal was strictly oral, and will simply disappear into thin air if either side rejects it - but whenever you hear the phrases "Palestinian state covering 95 percent of the West Bank" and "Israel to cede sovereignty over the Temple Mount," you know both sides will have plenty to complain about...
Even some admirers say Boies can be less than straightforward during settlement negotiations, and many complain that he's maddeningly, even irresponsibly hard to reach because of his tendency to do 17 things at once. His partner Robert Silver acknowledges that "life might be easier" if Boies did only 13 things at once. "But," Silver adds, "you wouldn't want to tinker with the psychology" that makes him eager to do 17 things in the first place...
...very thought occurred to Microsoft, a company whose domination of the software business made it one of the world's most valuable entities--and the target of a federal antitrust suit. Yet even the Micro-monopolists went running to the FTC to complain. "I never had a problem with the merger," Disney chairman Michael Eisner insisted to TIME this fall. "I have a problem with the fact that there might be a single entity that decides what intellectual property goes into the house...