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That is why there is grumbling, but little organized opposition in Virginia and Maryland to the tax grant to the district--worth perhaps $700 million a year--that is gathering bipartisan support in Congress.
Reporters' appetites have been whetted by 1) ever-louder grumbling among House Republicans that the GOP leadership botched the fight with Clinton on disaster relief and the budget; 2) an anonymous "Dear Colleague" letter urging a no-confidence vote on Gingrich; 3) a demand by 50 House conservatives (on Gingrich's birthday) that the Republican caucus halt the leadership's drift to the center; and 4) House Majority Leader Dick Armey's failure to defend Gingrich.
Sometimes the words we use are the sounds of the communicating: whispering, cackling, prattling, chuckling, chortling, mumbling, grumbling.
Since the tasting panel had left the first round grumbling that cheap lagers were not a fair test of their abilities, this second round of testing was advertised to the panel as a reward.
The WP's media reporter Howard Kurtz reports there's grumbling in the newsroom of the Nashville Tennessean over the appearance in a Gore campaign video by the paper's editor, a close friend of Gore's.