Word: whining
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...social life, our housing system, our administration’s (possibly) weak commitment to the well-being of students, and the lack of cheap beer for underage kids. Now I feel guilty. I don’t hate Harvard. And the floodgates have opened: all we ever do is whine. What should...
Pappin can whine all he wants, but we welcome the media onslaught. The Salient, Harvard’s token conservative paper, should agree that competition is never a bad thing. But we do understand why Pappin felt overwhelmed. (Nude girls...
...companies' typical response to complaints about the price of prescription drugs is to cite their huge research and development costs. This amounts, Angell writes, to a veiled threat: We make these drugs that save and improve your life - don't whine that they should be cheaper, because if they were we couldn't keep discovering new ones. But Angell argues that the industry not only exaggerates the costs of bringing drugs to market but spends much more on marketing and administration than on research, which it prefers to leave to government-funded scientists, intervening only when it smells a buck...
...little embarrassing for a rising college senior to whine incessantly. At various points I would scold myself internally, wondering why exactly I was so unhappy with the situation. Performing necessary tasks out of a sense of duty is part of being “grown-up,” after all, and I was supposedly striving for that. And though I nearly fainted at the idea of having to pack up the hundreds of books on our shelves—and possibly even give some of them away!—I certainly enjoyed the opportunity to reread many...
...surrounding countryside every night. But despite the continuing threat of high-level bombing runs, there is little about the city to suggest that it is the capital of a country at war. Streetlights are turned off at night but restaurants are crowded, and even when air raid warnings whine from radios, it seems that no one bothers to seek cover...