Word: complain
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...main areas of dispute, trade and defense policy are not new. But tensions have been aggravated by the persistent global recession and the growing Soviet arms buildup. With the U.S. unemployment rate at 10%, U.S. business leaders complain with increasing stridency about what they consider to be unfair Japanese trading practices. A number of the announced Democratic presidential candidates have joined former Vice President Walter Mondale in calling for protection against the flood of Japanese imports (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). In addition, at a time when the U.S. is devoting 6% of its G.N.P. to defense, vs. less than...
...able to keep its military budgets unusually low: this year, for example, the bill came to $12 billion, or .98% of the G.N.P. In comparison, West Germany is spending 2.6% of its G.N.P., Britain 5.1% and the U.S. 6.3%. As a result of the imbalance, Americans and West Europeans complain increasingly that Japan's world economic success rests at least in part on its failure to pay its fair share of the West's defense, which means the West is paying an undue share of Japan's defense. Under pressure from Washington, Japan is now confronting questions...
...from the government. Western commentators talk of Japan Inc., implying that business and government have banded together to form a monolithic powerhouse bent on overrunning world markets. Critics such as Senator Donald Riegle Jr. of Michigan and W.J. Sanders III, chairman of Advanced Micro Devices, a California semiconductor company, complain that Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Mill) encourages the formation of cartels and also targets promising industries for special research grants. Some economists, businessmen and politicians are calling for a U.S. industrial policy to counteract Japan's government planning...
...credit belongs to Sheik Isa, 50, the short, slightly pudgy Emir who has ruled the country since 1961. The sheik, whose cherubic face always seems to be breaking into a smile, truly delights in dealing with people. Anyone with a grievance can come to the palace and complain to His Highness in person. If a foreigner has trouble with the royal name, the sheik is likely to joke, "Call me Jake." Although he is wealthy, he and his wife avoid extravagances; the sheik is often spotted driving around in a vintage gray Chevrolet rather than a gleaming Rolls. Largely...
...like the Louvre; there local police have even enlisted American tourists to act as decoys. And travelers protest as bitterly as ever about the all too many Parisian waiters who cling to their historic tradition of rudeness, slovenliness and occasional dishonesty. (But this is a Paris phenomenon. Americans seldom complain of the service in the rest of France...