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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Gates reportedly accused Israel of being ungrateful for all the things the US did for it.
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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.
Finally, he implies, we are ungrateful for the restraint shown by prosecutors when responding to the pitchfork-wielding mobs clamoring for hangings, any hangings.
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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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The Russians accordingly see the Poles as ungrateful, meddling American lackeys.
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.
Meanwhile, for some Han Chinese, the Uighurs seem ungrateful and backward, pampered by the state with preferential policies, such as being allowed to have more children.
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.
When that mission ended in failure, western governments decided that it was pointless to send their troops into ungrateful third-world hellholes, so they did nothing in Rwanda in 1994.
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.
But gold medals in events like table tennis, diving and gymnastics (China is arranging the games to suit its strengths) will doubtless stir patriotism among even the most ungrateful Chinese.
"This kind of argument, defaming North Korea as an ungrateful scoundrel, intends to do nothing but alienate the relationship between China and North Korea, " Cao Shigong writes in Global Times.
In no other period in the country's history would it have been considered unseemly, indeed ungrateful, that a combat veteran nominated for high office should be forced to face aggressive questioning.
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Netanyahu, in turn, is demonized as ungrateful and uncooperative.
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And this means that our jealous and ungrateful peers are poised to jump ship to the next big dog, China, however corrupt, undemocratic, and parsimonious that new big dog may be.
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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Even though you are slandered, unappreciated by many, and work tirelessly to protect the largely ungrateful, be aware that many Americans are extraordinarily proud of you and the mission you strive so hard to accomplish.
We're normally fans of "quirky, " but there's nothing more frustrating than a quirky clicking experience, as has been reported by many of the ungrateful bastages who've snapped up the new MacBook and MacBook Pros since launch.
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