Word: complains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...client has received the names of two matches, Stern and her staff of six do not abandon the libido to take its wobbly course. Hopeful marriage mates are given coaching to learn the finer points of courtship ("Packaging Yourself for Marriage," "Getting Past First Base"). "Men and women constantly complain about mixed signals," says Stern. "The men accuse women of agreeing to a second date, then never returning calls. The women say, 'Why do they always say I'll call you, when they don't mean it?' We tell all our clients: tell the truth...
Captain Alex Konovalchik couldn't complain with the first meet of the season...
Later in life Poussin would complain of the pressure of commissions. "Monsieur, these are not things that can be done at the crack of a whip," he wrote to his friend and patron Chantelou in 1645, "like your Parisian painters who make a sport of turning out a picture in twenty-four hours." But in his Roman youth, he could and did turn them out, and it would be idle to pretend that all early Poussin is on the same level. Some paintings are much less "finished" than others. A few are hackwork (such as Hannibal Crossing the Alps, done...
Early in October, members of Harvard crew team began to complain to terrible stenches along certain stretches of the Charles which they pass by frequently...
...Critics complain that the third section makes the Journal cumbersome, while some advertisers are said to be concerned that the new format allows readers to discard sections they prefer not to read. But these arguments hardly seem valid. The format makes the previously scattershot Journal more reader friendly and attractive -- and that can't be bad for business...