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Sometimes the words we use are the sounds of the communicating: whispering, cackling, prattling, chuckling, chortling, mumbling, grumbling.
There was much grumbling in the ranks about this question but, if imperfect, it does rest on a solid theoretical foundation.
Critics resumed grumbling that CEOs are overpaid.
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.