When a new Starbucks pops up in parts of Manhattan, some residents invariably bemoan its sterile corporate-ness, then give in and buy coffee there anyway.

As rebuilding continues, some longtime residents bemoan the lack of a master plan.

In Emeryville, residents often bemoan a neighbor's lack of social skills and self-centeredness.

But some residents bemoan the clock's lack of a snooze button, to say nothing of an on-off switch.

For months many local residents drove past the theater and bemoaned the loss of another small-town icon.

Last week, residents bemoaned the latest snag, which Mr. Tomei said the block association learned about from a transit official in March.

A few residents bemoaned the loss of about $25,000 a year in property taxes from the 26-acre factory tract once it is owned by a nonprofit group.

So hated were the pre-Taliban warlords that their possible permanent return made some residents here bemoan the Taliban's departure.

Many residents bemoaned the fact that visitors were being cheated out of the ringing of the bell.

Some longtime residents bemoan the change.