Word: gripes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quick check with Russert reveals that he offered Gingrich the entire hour of Meet the Press the Sunday before the election to discuss--you guessed it--Social Security, along with the space program, tax cuts, the budget and education. Gingrich declined. In truth, Gingrich had no gripe with the media over its Monica obsession, which allowed him to stoke it quietly behind the scenes. What truly concerned him was that the press's eye had wandered since Clinton's Aug. 17 confession. Too many shows were going off-topic, too many talking heads exclaiming over Mark McGwire and showing boredom...
WASHINGTON: When Big Tobacco disavowed John McCain's tobacco legislation, its loudest gripe was that greedy Washington politicians were turning what was once a fair deal between the industry and the states into a $516 billion federal shakedown. Well, the Marlboro Man may have the last laugh: The same political squabbling that created the McCain monster looks set to destroy...
...educational institution which I attend, should have responsibility for my well-being while I am here. Female students who support Radcliffe do so because they feel a need and a love for structures that support women and that provide women with a space of their own. They gripe that Harvard doesn't do that for its female students and that thus Radcliffe is necessary to ensure women a fair deal while attending Harvard...
From the perspective of international sanction, the Israeli expansion into Palestinian land is a violation of U.N. resolutions. In light of the international community's repeated protests, Palestinian grievances take on a new shade. Their loss of territory is not simply a national gripe, but a transgression against prior agreements and the sanction of the world at large...
...from the loss of income. The U.N. Commission on Human Rights censured Israel in 1974 for its policies in the lands it had taken since its independence. Human rights concerns thus similarly show "the Palestinians' problem" to be an issue of international concern rather than merely one nation's gripe toward another...