Word: nitpicker
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...blew it during the crisis. This is nutty. It's easy to nitpick the AIG bailout or any of the Fed's other unpalatable decisions during the panic, but they have worked out better than anyone had any right to expect, preventing a catastrophe for a relatively paltry price. Bernanke has been pilloried for conjuring up trillions of dollars out of thin air and lending to unconventional borrowers who had never dreamed of getting their hands on Fed cash, but more than 80% of his emergency loans have been paid back, and the Fed is returning record profits to taxpayers...
...with a cutting-edge layout, the company would at least put a sign up. In West Deptford, it's easy to miss the entrance to the Walmart - which is buried in the back of a parking lot - while driving along a main thoroughfare. And of course, customers will always nitpick. One elderly shopper complained about a shortage of benches in the store (she needed a rest). Another had a more esoteric, yet legitimate, gripe. "Their meat is leaky," says Jeff Winter, 30, a West Deptford shopper. "And instead of giving you a wet wipe to clean it off, they give...
...This was the single toughest year for NBC News in its history. To lose Tim Russert when we did, how we did- we never got to catch our breath. So, I'm not going to nitpick at what we could have done better. We were in unchartered territory...
...their ticket’s name on Thayer Hall late last night. Tim R. Hwang ’08 said there was no “better way to celebrate the revolutionary movement than by having huge lights on a freshman dorm.” Allen did not nitpick last night and indicated that he had not known about the lights until informed by The Crimson. “The Election Commission congratulates [Hwang-Wong] on their creativity,” he said.In fact, the Commission relies primarily on outside reports to detect infractions rather than actively seeking them...
...into the chapter on Rousseau’s early boyhood without a hint of strain.But though it was wise not to say more about Rousseau’s books and essays than could be understood without reading them, something is still missing. The only problem—a nitpick, perhaps—is that the biography might not quite motivate modern audiences to read Rousseau’s own works. Damrosch is very good at communicating the scope of Rousseau’s influence on later thinkers and entire fields of inquiry, but this is not quite the same. Isaac...