Word: complain
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...have been on the rise during the past two years in Arizona, despite the supposed crackdown on organized crime after the Bolles murder. Spending for law enforcement in fiscally-conservative Arizona has finally reached the per-capita level of most other states since the Bolles killing, but police complain that the funding is still seriously inadequate because of Arizona's much higher incidence of organized crime. In addition, many of the increases in the state's law enforcement budget have been devoted to relatively unimportant or gimmicky solutions. One appropriation of $50,000, for example, was designed to hide witnesses...
...fact land prices have been climbing steeply, but almost wholly because of demand by Americans. While farmers justifiably complain that the price increase has kicked up their property taxes, it has also added much to their property values, enhancing their estates. For farmers to complain about that is as illogical as homeowners carping because outsiders are moving in and bidding up land and housing values in their neighborhoods...
...theme of the Puebla conference, "Evangelization in the Present and Future of Latin America," sounds innocuous but may well produce controversy. Ten years ago, a similar conference of bishops passed a human rights resolution that aligned the church with the poor and dispossessed. Tradition-minded churchmen complain that this fueled the "theology of liberation" that has given Catholicism a Marxist hue in Latin America...
...long as Bogart, Cassady, Kerouac and all the rest are not around to complain, they look livelier and livelier to the Hollywood idea men in the age of gossip. Trouble is, complains Rod Steiger, a man who has already portrayed ten historical characters on the screen, including Napoleon and W.C. Fields, the wrong shades are being called back from the dead. "Joan Crawford? That's entertainment value. But go out and try to do the life of Beethoven or Albert Schweitzer or Einstein. You march into a producer's office and say you want to do Einstein...
Perhaps most indicative of the change in Angola is Neto's open bid for more Western investment. The few Western companies operating in Angola, Neto said, "are doing their work well, have good relations with us, and pay their taxes promptly. We have no reason to complain." Conspicuous by its absence was any reference to capitalist exploitation, neocolonialism and bourgeois imperialism, common catchwords in the socialist Third World?and until recently in Agostinho Neto's troubled capital...