Word: complaintant
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...grocery store in suburban Portland, Ore., was cashier Tom Morgan, more or less minding his own business. And there also was cashier Randy Maresh, who seemed to delight in tormenting Morgan. At length Morgan got fed up, hired a lawyer and sued Maresh for $100,000 in damages. The complaint: Maresh "willfully and maliciously inflicted severe mental stress and humiliation . . . by continually, intentionally and repeatedly passing gas directed at the plaintiff." Not only that: Maresh would "hold it and walk funny to get to me" before expressing himself...
...courts are only one of the crybaby's many avenues of complaint; there is the street, the pulpit, the press. Public officials, writers, children in school -- all nowadays hide behind euphemisms that are often silly, not to say condescending, lest they be castigated by the crybaby for even the most inadvertent slip or imagined insult to this race or that ethnic group. They are fleeing, in other words, before the crybaby's greatest talent: the ability to hand out guilt, frequently entangled in the sacred American discourse on rights. If drunk drivers get into trouble, they have the right...
...Prime Minister, Edith Cresson has managed to incite fury abroad with her biting bouche. Shortly after her appointment, she declared on television that Japan was an "aggressor" that "lived in a universe different from ours, a universe of domination." The remarks prompted the Japanese Foreign Ministry to lodge a complaint with the French ambassador, and sparked protests outside the French embassy in Tokyo...
...page "complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief" filed yesterday begins by saying it is an action "to compel the defendant to make available all records in its possession relating to indirect costs for work performed for Harvard University for the federal government...
Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development Robert A. Levine echoes the complaint, frequently heard in Ed School circles. "Our grads don't go out and make a lot of money," he says. "A dean has to raise money from someone other than our own alumni, unlike places like the Business School and the Law School...