When Apple co-founder Steve Jobs rejoined the company, in 1997, Apple users were the ones with reason to grumble.
Internally, a few people have been heard to grumble that the company might just be a bit too big.
Cause to grumble, but the fault of a political deadline rather than e-booking.
The overall outcome suggests the north-east of England has plenty reason to grumble about the share of the pie it's getting.
Pets die, dog excrement litters the kitchen floor, and David recedes into his office, emerging only to grumble about the electric bill.
Instead, another early exit in the tournament provided enough to grumble about.
Officials in Islamabad and diplomats abroad are primed to grumble about it.
While the higher-ed tax credits and deductions might make middle-income families less inclined to grumble during tax season, their cost is huge.
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But one thing Refco makes clear: When it comes to America's financial markets, there will always be something for him to grumble about.
These are local businesses so the people applying for these jobs choose to grumble under their breath instead of invoking their legal rights.
We Londoners are a resilient lot, however: We like to grumble about the foolishness of the Orbit, but no doubt we will get used to it.
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One of the most surprising things, she said, is how much lottery winners miss their previous lives -- even those jobs they used to grumble about.
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Critics are beginning to grumble that this plethora of imports is cutting off opportunities for home-grown players, and so may damage the chances of the national side.
If this is the first commercial implementation of graphene, we're not going to grumble, even if it's not the science fiction-like super product we'd been hoping for.
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It settled into a pattern of flaring up every now and then before dying back to a grumble.
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Third, the manufacturers designed products around home-grown technical standards and special features that are not used elsewhere. (Most foreign visitors to Japan grumble upon discovering that their phones are incompatible with the country's wireless networks.) So the Japanese makers can only build phones tailored to the overseas market at a high cost and lower margins, making it an unattractive business to enter.
Guaranteeing a minimum price also means there is no incentive to improve quality, grumble coffee-drinkers, who find that the quality of Fairtrade brews varies widely.
But, assuming that the Al Sauds can sort out among themselves who is to rule or, as many Saudis now grumble openly, decide how to share future spoils the kingdom lacks formal mechanisms to facilitate or legitimise change, such as an elected parliament, a respected supreme court, or an independent press.
There is not much time to celebrate a victory or grumble over a loss because the next game is around the corner.
So, the next time you start to moan about the weird tech support guys and grumble about your internal support costs and how little seems to get done just understand that this stupid Microsoft bug is just one small part of the black hole that sucks away their time.
Property developers grumble that they have to provide the original plan of a building they wish to overhaul.
Western firms grumble about their failure to turn their stakes in China Inc into a foothold in the Chinese market, but not too loudly, so that they do not annoy the government.
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As a result, the Confederation of British Industry, a big-business lobby, worries about underinvestment, and officials at the Bank of England grumble about firms' reluctance to lower hurdles.
And householders generally grumble a lot if they have to pay extra to have their rubbish collected.
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