America is perfectly set up for extroverts, which is one reason the introverted intellectual class feels alienated and grouchy.

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Hard-pressed workers are feeling grouchy: workforce surveys report record levels of job dissatisfaction.

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All of which is to lead up to this: it does not pay to make customers grouchy about their precious devices.

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They are a grizzled, grouchy team, full of Tommy Jones characters.

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Yet despite that incredibly grouchy disposition, LA charmed me.

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And makes many scientists grouchy.

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