Word: gripes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there's a student group who feels they've been wronged by another student group or by the administration--an issue that the group thinks is worthwhile," then that group should be able to take their gripe to the council, Liston said...
...consistent gripe that I have throughout the recorded works (the four Brahms symphonies on three discs, and the two serenades on a fourth disc), it is some criticism for the sound engineering. Quite typically from Philips, the sound sparkles with digital clarity and is graced by a glossy sheen, but the engineers have failed to compensate for the Concertgebouw Hall's famed reverberation. Even though orchestral entrances are almost always well-synchronized, the subsequent lag time in the hall results in an acoustic clouding that renders the sound more two-dimensional than one might expect. Very exposed passages...
...didn't know if it was appropriate because our program is so well-funded and we don't have reason to gripe," Hajek says. "We're moving in the right direction... we can't change things overnight...
...couple of humble amphibians, the Pacific giant salamander and the tailed frog. While Coho salmon still spawn in Headwaters streams, stocks of this once plentiful game fish have crashed so sharply off California -- in part because of logging erosion -- that all sport and commercial fishing was banned recently. Environmentalists gripe that wildlife-survey regulations are a joke because logging companies do their own surveys. But regulations have slowed log production, and Pacific has fought back. In 1990 the company reamed a broad, mile-and-a-half corridor into the middle of the Headwaters forest and called it, with a wink...
Furthermore, the major "privacy violation" gripe that has spewed out of the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard since the card keys were introduced last year is not at all convincing. While students might not like the fact that the University can check its records to see when they come and go, this system will probably help track down troublemakers and also serve as a deterrent to crime. The card keys' benefits to safety outweigh their costs to privacy...