Word: complains
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...bill at least doesn't hurt him. Sure, he believes there's a fundamental inequity about income thresholds for tax breaks and thinks that if they must exist, they should be higher. But he knows it would not be politically correct for someone of his means to complain. So he won't. That's why I'm doing...
...Organizers of the New York conference, a group called Beyond Hope (Hackers on Planet Earth) complain the public has a warped view of hackers. They stress most conference participants worm their way into computer systems to learn how they work so they can make them better, more secure. Beyond HOPE complains that a small number of renegades have ruined the image of the rest of them by doing things like taking down phone systems and swiping credit card numbers. Who could imagine these petty offenses would give the whole group such...
...seeker who last week was charged with plotting a terrorist bombing in Brooklyn. Police sources say evidence includes a note threatening a series of attacks on American and Jewish interests. Meanwhile, Congress is embracing the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform's proposal to abolish the INS, as state officials complain that the agency is unable to keep criminal aliens out of the country. Not surprisingly, the INS is gearing up to save itself...
...time. Pharmaceutical companies are working on two promising vaccines that could be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration later this year. Biologists have even come up with some ingenious methods for controlling the tick population that carries Lyme. But no one is satisfied, not the victims who complain that their symptoms seem to persist, not the doctors who are called upon to treat those victims, not the scientists who are being asked to solve a medical mystery that no one has been able to define clearly. There are now so many mixed messages about exactly what Lyme...
What right do we have to complain about teenage smoking when we are signing the paycheck for the best salesman the cigarette industry has ever had? As anyone who has ever been a teenager knows, the Surgeon General's message on a pack of cigarettes is a challenge, not a disincentive. It gives the teenager an opportunity to display his machismo without having to consider the consequences until the dim and distant future. BEN HARNEY Spokane, Wash...