Word: gripings
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Liberal faculty members have a similar gripe with McLaughlin. "[McLaughlin] has to make it clear what is and isn't tolerable activity. You don't go around kicking chairs from under people. Everybody's mother told them that," says Thomas Roos, one of McLaughlin's most severe faculty critics and a supporter...
...notorious "pre-med row" of the Cabot Library basement, a subgenre of gripe-graffiti has evolved. The subject-matter varies little in its scope, though the final form can be more biting than run-of-the-mill graffiti...
...saddest, and also the most ominous, majority gripe is the implicit assumption that a combination of increased social spending and voluntary social service will successfully address America's domestic problems. This may indeed prove to be the case; but if it's not, a widespread reluctance to chip in with time rather than money could prove disastrous for the United States. We observe many examples in the world today of nations tearing themselves up from within because various groups feel hopelessly alienated from and/or oppressed by others. Americans cannot feel smugly insulated from such strains; national service could...
...cheapest and most inappropriate gripe of all is the claim that national service would be a violation of civil liberties. It's awfully hard to see how a year spent in national service by all young Americans is more a violation of civil liberties than lifelong forced payment of taxes, or mandatory primary education, or the graduated income...
...Mullins, 57, is too angry just to gripe. A Coke drinker for 50 years, he has formed an association in Seattle called the Old Cola Drinkers of America. The group's aim is to force Coca-Cola to switch back to the original + formula or at least release it to another bottler. Mullins first set up a hotline featuring a recorded pep talk: "Let's get Coca-Cola to start making the old Coke again." After receiving 60,000 calls, the line was disconnected last week. Mullins talks about filing a class action against the company, claiming that...