Word: griping
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...CHARGES If you have a gripe with American Express, don't expect to make your case in court. Starting next month, the company can bring customer disputes to arbitration, which, it says, is the most efficient way to settle claims. This will also help the company avoid juries. BankOne and Bank of America have similar rules for Visa and MasterCard, but Citibank does...
...cell phones so that refugees can contact their relatives. In some camps, makeshift convenience stores have sprung up, selling soda, meat pies and other homelike conveniences at affordable Balkan prices. But as international aid workers fight traditional camp scourges such as cholera and dysentery, they are also starting to gripe about another epidemic, one peculiar to the age of the televised war: celebrities...
...remains chock full of people who, upon hearing you gripe about the loss of your eightpage final paper for a moral reasoning class, question ingenuously "Did you back it up on a disk?" when really, had you done so, your entire motivation for complaining would have been destroyed...
...goal was truly in sight, and who got there first was largely a matter of speed--Salk's forte--and luck. "Salk was strictly a kitchen chemist," Sabin used to gripe. "He never had an original idea in his life." But imaginative people perennially underrate efficient ones, and at the time, the kitchen chemist--who prepared his vaccine by marinating the virus in formalin--was just what the doctor ordered...
When Dr. George Lundberg was fired last month as editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, he didn't get mad. He started talking to 60 Minutes. That alarmed the A.M.A. even more than its original gripe with Lundberg--his decision to publish a study on oral sex just as the impeachment trial was starting--and the board quickly began negotiations to rehire...