In private, however, he gripes, albeit cautiously, about his country and his countrymen.

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He gripes that it polluted the breed by registering more than 100 Kiger-type horses, some from other parts of the country.

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Now he just turns his gripes into songs.

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So, when House Minority Leader John Boehner gripes, as he did Sunday in a same-old, same-old refrain that "the American people know that more Washington spending isn't the answer, " the logical response is: OK, what do you suggest?

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He concedes that some of the gripes are legitimate, particularly complaints that 3-D glasses dim the image on the screen.

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He prefers Yahoo Finance, despite his gripes about all the ads cluttering the site.

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Occasionally, his gripes brought controversy, as when he railed against having women work as sideline reporters at NFL games.

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Michael Losh , whose departure FORBES predicted in a May 29 cover story that cited analyst gripes of arrogance and downplaying bad news, which he denies.

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What he presumably meant to say was that the news organizations diminished the moral authority of their gripes by refusing the meeting.

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