Word: gripes
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...CAPTION: Gripe, Gripe, Gripe...
That is not my only concern with the possibility of nominating a senator to the post of Supreme Court justice. I have a gripe against politicians sui generis (Latin and the law go well together) being nominated to our nation's highest court...
Washington -- U.S. workers often gripe that illegal aliens are taking their jobs -- and now that complaint is being made by convicts. Federal Prison Industries, a Justice Department unit that employs 16,000 federal prisoners (some make furniture for $1 an hour), told TIME that 4,500 of its workers -- about 28% -- are aliens. Inmates believe that many, if not most, are in this country illegally. Federal law prohibits the "knowing" employment of such workers, but a lawyer for FPI says it doesn't ask inmates if they're in the U.S. illegally...
Lest you be mislead into thinking I'm going to whimper about the temperature, let me assure you that it's not the weather I'm talking about. Although the excess of snow may still be my most popular gripe and though my New England born neighbors tire of hearing me extol the virtues of the Golden State's perpetual spring, after two long winters I have almost grown accustomed to the idea that not all of my facial accoutrements will survive Harvard intact...
Cambridge political underdogs gripe that the "P.R." of proportional representation might as well stand for perpetual re-election...