Word: gripes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cheng and Hwang said that the Project, commissioned by Epps, shows "a lack of consideration for the students" by not dealing with students directly. But Patel said the Project "made a huge effort to interview all of us [students]" and called the letter's gripe "inaccurate...
...total production sometime in the next decade. Though the Liberal Democratic Party is torn by scandal and dissension, no other party or coalition is anywhere near strong enough yet to snatch away all its power. What passes for social protest in Japan might look like placidity elsewhere. A Japanese gripe session is likely to end on the word shoganai (roughly: nothing can be done about it). Though rap music has come to Japan, the most assertive lyrics decry too much monosodium glutamate in Chinese food...
...most common complaint--and one that has just been re-lodged against us by Radcliffe crew--is that we think men's sports are more important than women's sports and direct our resources accordingly. The corollary to this is the gripe that we don't cover smaller sports such as skiing and fencing...
...months from November to April are pure hell, ask any fan. And it's not because most of our favorite players gripe about their salaries or ask to be traded. In fact, those are some of the better days of the off-season...
When they get to talking, G-men gripe about a certain goofiness in Sessions' demeanor. Gary Penrith, former chief of the FBI's Newark, New Jersey, office, remembers briefing Sessions on a major racketeering case. Suddenly, Penrith says, Sessions burst into song, chirping the lyrics of an old advertising jingle: "Brylcreem, a little dab will do ya." Penrith, who quit last year, regards his former boss with contempt. "He loses it," said Penrith...