Word: gripes
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...only gripe: a writer's first duty should be to his readers, not his subject. Sometimes I got the feeling that Lewis so reveres his protagonist that he became his apologist. Clark, we're told, is restlessly obsessed with finding the next new thing--which is, apparently, a good quality. But another interpretation might be that Clark is simply driven by the pursuit of filthy lucre. There has to be a higher purpose to life than making yourself rich. During the '80s, we knew that the people making their fortune on Wall Street were hardly role models; yuppie...
...complains, in part because most of the employees just graduated from college and don't know any better, and in part because, as one says, "we're in the music space, and people think that's cool." If any employees do gripe, Hinman--who recycles old business cards by crossing out his former employer's name and scribbling MongoMusic.com on them--can remind them that for six weeks in 1995 he lived in a tent on the roof of a Stanford physics lab. And despite the sweatshop conditions, Hinman is a benign manager. "When 5 o'clock on Friday rolls...
Princeton University Health Services makes an effort to increase communication with students through its "Gratitude and Gripe Day," where members of the organization's student advisory board "sit in the student center and solicit commentary from our student patients," Langan said...
...from the White House by way of a presidential veto, congressional negotiators sat down with White House aides in the past few weeks to address the President?s concerns that consumers not be shortchanged by the legal system should they come to court with a legitimate Y2K gripe. On Tuesday, the two sides announced they had reached a compromise. On Wednesday, though, following continuing opposition from many Democrats, the negotiators said some important details still needed to be worked...
...matter how much students and their defenders may gripe, it's the dollar that makes the decision...