Word: complainer
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...hasn't spoiled it. The group and its record label have responded by promoting the new album very little and even holding off on making rock videos for the time being. Some critics of the band claim its members have handled their fame poorly. "I've heard Eddie Vedder complain about MTV, as if he had been bound and gagged to make the video for Jeremy and forced to sign a record contract with a major label," gripes Alternative Nation's veejay, who goes by the name of Kennedy. Her advice: "Don't bite the hand that feeds...
...that no one here is taking,'' says Henry King, a business researcher at the University of Texas at El Paso. He estimates that the shadow work force now shut out accounts for 30% of all sales in El Paso. Merchants on once thriving streets near the three international bridges complain that business has plummeted as much as 80%. ''Do you see any customers?'' asks retailer Adrian Tavera, standing amid towering piles of T shirts and slacks. ''I'll be gone by Christmas if this keeps up.'' Says currency-exchange clerk Margie Barrientos: ''The stealing is gone...
...fashion-modeling assignment, she also took the occasion to show off another of her many wigs, along with a crocheted headdress dripping with beads and feathers. TV viewers will see the more conventional Belafonte-Harper again next fall when she returns to her Hotel information desk. Maybe if fans complain, stern James Brolin, who runs the hostelry, will let her cut loose. Why not that headdress and feathers to liven up the lobby...
...interview aired Sunday morning on CBS's Face the Nation, Obama called the situation in Afghanistan "precarious" and "urgent," and stressed that Washington needs to start planning now to send more troops to the country rather than leaving that to the next President. He also took the opportunity to complain that neighboring Pakistan is not doing enough to go after militant training camps in its remote tribal areas...
...says commercial sites like Amazon.com aren't required to police themselves, it does make it clear that if a trademark holder like Fobis discovers an infringement on one of those sites, it can play cybercop itself and demand that the site remove it. Still, companies like Fobis and Tiffany complain that merely having to pluck out the offending material is hardly the same as having to face punitive consequences that might deter it and other retailers from allowing that material on their sites in the first place. And as experts like Edwards note, a firm like Fobis, whose annual Weemote...