Word: lamentation
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...only wish I'd hidden it better," students lament as they complain about having to shell out more money to buy a new appliance. "Next time, I'll be more careful...
Many people are quick to lament the growing numbers of lawyers in the United States and throughout the world, he said...
...were on a faster schedule than the stop-and-go City of New Orleans Goodman described. (He wrote the song in 1970, just before Amtrak took over the line with plans to rename that route the Panama Limited after the old Pullman train. Goodman's popular lament for the train with the "disappearin'-railroad blues" persuaded Amtrak to rechristen it the City of New Orleans.) And our sleek new equipment was a far cry from the tattered luxury of its aging 1940s cars...
Diallo's mother may lament the fact that no one got to know her son through the trial testimony, but court is not a talk show. And if civil rights activist Al Sharpton really wants to effect change in the New York police, he could probably be more influential by being silent rather than delivering hostile tirades. TIM LAITINEN Arlington, Texas...
...true that Harvard College is not a democracy. This is not a lament or a boast, but a fact that must inform the decisions and attitudes of both undergraduates and administrators. As students, we must understand that improvements in our lives can come only through cooperation and reasoned persuasion. Since undergraduates occupy at best a marginal role in the decision-making process, the administration must welcome and seriously consider student reactions to policy changes. Dean Lewis' response to this petition does not respect the mutual obligations necessary for cooperation between students and administrators...