Word: gripes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second thing to know is that he's not afraid to upset very large apple carts. Richard Nixon's reported gripe to his counsel John Dean about the too-vigilant "Jew boys" over in the sec was aimed partly at Sporkin, who was dogging the rogue financier Robert Vesco for an illegal $200,000 contribution to Nixon's re-election campaign. Eventually Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell pressured William Casey, then sec chairman and Sporkin's boss, to delay an investigation into Vesco's contribution until after Election Day. When Casey tried to lean on Sporkin, the latter resisted...
...gripe is not with creative writing as such, just with creative writing courses. Creative writing courses do not belong in the academy--in our academy, anyhow...
...unlikely to pay it back. "Let's cut out this nonsense of trying to hoodwink the American people," Hollings told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, where Chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) ignored GOP leaders more sympathetic to the plan by giving its opponents a daylong public forum to gripe. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin touted the IMF loan -- largest in the organization's 51-year history -- as the international community's vote of confidence on Mexico's ability to recover. But in Congress, says TIME's Tumulty, "right now it's just a big mess. The president's version cannot...
...know, Darwin could not have won the Nobel prize," he says. "He only worked on concepts. Only about 20 percent of scientists are eligible [for the Nobel]." Mayr jokes that the other 80 percent of scientists gripe about that fact...
Worse still, the Buick City employees gripe, each is being asked to do what used to be several jobs. "If somebody retires, all they do is take the work and give it to other people" who already have their hands full, says one worker. That complaint is echoed by workers, blue collar and white collar, in varied industries all over the country...