Word: gripes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another place to work I would," says roofer Michael Braga, whose major gripe is reduced pay. "I think Harvard sucks...There's all this `Do you have any Grey Poupon?' bullshit. The buildings are nice, but who cares...
Some of the more intriguing objections: cigarette makers, targeted for a tax of around 75 cents a pack to help pay for the plan, have been howling "No fair." They insist that any "sin" taxes should fall on liquor as well as smokes. Some feminists, while enthusiastically pro-reform, gripe that Clinton's plan does not pay enough attention to women's special health problems. For example, they say, it would be too stingy in paying for mammograms...
Damon's tenacity paid off--she got into the class. Her initial rejection, however, underlines a gripe that many seniors have with some Core lotteries...
...main gripe is the grueling pace and pressure of a hierarchical, high-energy administration compared to the more relaxed lifestyle of most academics...
...relations hand-book and an upcoming race relations audit from an outside consulting firm (which was preemptively declared unsuccessful.) The writers charged that Epps had offended a visiting Japanese American performer--a performer who, in an interview, said the incident in question was insignificant. They concluded with a bizarre gripe about Epps addressing Asian American students in Japanese and Chinese...