The young protagonist, Eddie, works days on a tree-cutting crew to support his ungrateful invalid mother.
His attitude, which probably strikes many people as ungrateful, is a powerful lesson for negotiators.
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Cue cries of tax dodging, how ungrateful when we took him in those years before etc.
It was not just the Senate Democrats left stunned by the callous and ungrateful behavior of their peers.
Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, described Seddon as the ultimate "ungrateful son" who had an "insatiable thirst for cash".
Iichiro thinks his daughter selfish and ungrateful when she announces that she will get an apartment near her workplace.
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It wasn't that he was ungrateful - he just didn't need any recognition.
One suspects that Timon of Athens had the right idea for dealing with the ungrateful poet and painter who abused his generosity.
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And there's still an attitude that young people are "ungrateful", she believes.
On the other hand, New Yorkers seemed profoundly ungrateful on this score.
At the risk of sounding ungrateful for the labor required to organize so many kinds of art, this comprehensive show might easily have been improved.
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They see Mr Orban as merely the latest example in a long line of erratic eastern politicians prone to mystifying and ungrateful bouts of troublemaking.
On the face of it, the sacking seems perverse, and ungrateful.
While this sentiment may appear ungrateful, it should be remembered that Afghan soldiers are fighting and dying here - they are bearing the brunt of the conflict.
Sasha, who had hitherto been happy for Andrey, asking me if I could get Andrey American citizenship, now exploded, wondering if his nephew could really be so ungrateful.
The store managers feel that the ungrateful, lazy employees are endangering their jobs, while the employees feel, everyday, that their jobs are being threatened by the draconian store managers.
Netanyahu, in turn, is demonized as ungrateful and uncooperative.
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Lots of banking regulators and writers seem more shocked at how ungrateful big banks are toward the federal government, even after Uncle Sam bailed them out and let most of the bankers keep their jobs.
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Perhaps we sound ungrateful, but this sort of acceleration for Flash -- the internet's most popular multimedia delivery method -- is long overdue, and we're not overly impressed with the idea of waiting until mid-2010 for it to happen.
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I'm sorry if you think that I sound ungrateful but the fact of the matter is that, in the house I lived in as a kid, playing football for a living (or a means to an end) is regarded as a less-than-worthwhile contribution to the human race.
From the yearning of "Sweetest Kill" to the fizzy electronics and plucky strings of "All to All" to the off-kilter loops and ambient sounds of "Ungrateful Little Father, " McEntire's tasteful musical sculpting has added layered nuance which brings out the best in Drew and the various singers.
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