Word: complainer
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However frenetically we get and spend, an attachment to the natural life of the planet remains fixed in our system. Environmentalists sometimes complain that the memory of this attachment is buried too deep, though it continually surfaces, not only in names of places but also in turns of language that have no meaning in modern experience but are kept alive, nonetheless, like verbal souvenirs--horsepower, stream of consciousness, it's a jungle out there. One cannot think of a single composer, painter or writer who has not tracked at least one major inspiration to a bird, a tree, a rose...
...Unimpressed by Washington's insistence that the program is directed against rogue states, the Russians complain that the missile defense system eviscerates the whole basis of the ABM treaty: that both sides have an equally destructive attacking force. They argue that missile defense neutralizes an opponent's missile fleet, which creates a disparity that they are not prepared to live with. But building missiles is a lot cheaper than building anti-missile systems, so the response to an opponent's defense system is to simply build more missiles than it could eliminate - hence the Russian warning that...
...offered more as an intuition than a conclusion, but it produced a spate of fang baring among some higher primates in the media and scientific world, since it implies that gender differences owe more to biology than many people would like to believe. Three researchers wrote the Times to complain that Sullivan had overstated their thinking. In the online magazine Slate, columnist Judith Shulevitz attacked Sullivan for favoring nature over environment in a debate in which nobody knows yet which is which. In the days that followed, Sullivan fired back at Shulevitz in Slate, she attacked again, and other writers...
...World Class staff in Spanish to place the group together. "Going out each night and running into slimy World Class staff at clubs that called me ‘spoiled Harvard chick' because they recognized my name was even more indicative of how unprofessional the staff was," she complains. "I had club promoters running around ‘looking for Fabianna,' basically to make sure I had a good time. They tried to appease me by throwing drinks in my face. Sorry, but alcohol was very little incentive or appeasement in Cancun, the land of the open bar." Some...
...record-industry moguls have no right to complain about the rampant use of MP3 files on the Internet [EVERYONE'S A STAR.COM, March 27]. They brought it on themselves by creating the vastly popular "one-hit wonder...