Still, doubts that this will offer much of a shield under real-life conditions lead to grousing.
You are not going to make a sale if a customer is grousing over poor service.
Grousing that the buyout price excludes potential production from Davy Jones is not only wrong but misleading.
But there was no grousing about Surface as Lenovo unveiled its next ThinkPad tablet, which will support Windows 8.
There's still some hard-court season left, and Nadal has been grousing about it, feeling the surface agitates his worn knees.
Investors might be hoping to take advantage of investor grousing driving the stock down the next time Iger announces a big franchise buy.
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Privately, they imply the Europeans are hypocrites: many of those now grousing about America's anti-terrorist policies have acquiesced in CIA operations on their territories.
But some HMOs are now grousing a bit and planning to pass Cobra costs on to members next year in the form of rate increases.
Fidelity chief Edward Johnson III, who has heard plenty of grousing from mutual fund investors during the bear market, has a new round of gripes to cope with.
On the day I was there, he was grousing loudly about a barely visible shadow that he detected on a publicity photo of one of his watches.
Chatter about Facebook's demise never seems to die down, whether it's talk of "Facebook fatigue, " or grousing about how the social network lost its cool once grandma joined.
Sure, you've probably heard some of these complaints before, the grousing of elders and eggheads about those darn kids and their clothes and their hair and their newfangled technology.
Resistance from the installed base has been detectable for years, with CIOs grousing about having to qualify an entirely new image just because Microsoft wants to turn its base over again.
For all the grousing about the minimal changes from the iPhone 4 to the iPhone 4S, Apple's fastest smartphone incorporates sweeping shifts compared to what the company did with its iPod line.
Any such hardball moves would lead to grousing--and it's the rare philanthropist who doesn't prefer to be thanked rather than denounced--but deploying a few sticks along with the carrots produces faster and more durable results.
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