Word: complainer
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...tussle with bounding Bob, who wants to close up that pork barrel so tight that he votes against projects that benefit his own district. "He resents the government," says Hollings. "Ask him what has he done in Washington in the past six years but whine and complain and holler pork...
...fact, these workers are lucky to get wages at all. Says Kwong: "Employers know that the workers can't complain, so they withhold wages, claiming manufacturers were slow to pay. It has become standard practice to withhold six weeks' pay or more." The vast numbers of new arrivals have depressed wages throughout Chinatown 30% in the past five years. Dishwashing jobs, for instance, which once paid $800 a month...
...gangs who brought them over and continue to see the immigrants as better guarantees of meal tickets than their old heroin trade. Twice in the past year, gang members surrounded the Bowery quarters, blocked the fire escapes, then calmly robbed the residents of their savings. The victims didn't complain, they said, because they feared retaliation against their families in China if they caused trouble for the gangs. Says one: "We have no one to protect us. There is nothing we can do. We may as well be slaves...
...stature in Washington. A former National Security Council staff member, he was thought by some to be too young and inexperienced when he took over the CIA at age 44. There have been missteps on his watch. The Indian nuclear tests last May caught the agency by surprise. Critics complain that the CIA knew too little about the pharmaceutical plant the U.S. bombed in Sudan to prove it was producing chemical weapons for terrorist Osama bin Laden...
...because it was Beanie Baby day. The Yanks' starters couldn't even get in fights alone; their two bench-clearing brawls--one with the underperforming Orioles and one with a frustrated Toronto club--were dominated by guys off the bench. All the players shared time and didn't complain. They're not fun to write about...