Word: complain
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Nothing Soviet General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev's indignation over the show, expressed at a recent press conference, Pipes said the Soviets should be the last to complain. He said anti-U.S. films released in the Soviet Union have depicted American officials as villains and Nazi collaborators for years...
Goldman, who criticized both the film and its political stance, said "people are talking about something more than the Bruins and the Celtics and the weather--for an educator, that's good." He added that "the Soviets complain that we don't know about them--well, this is doing...
Many federal agents, as well as state and local police, complain that they are fighting smugglers without the paraphernalia they need, including night-vision devices, secure radios and electronic sensors to plant in remote airfields and along footpaths used by smugglers. The Customs Service in McAllen, Texas, has only one rubber raft to patrol a 170-mile stretch of the Rio Grande. Declares Silvestre Reyes, chief Border Patrol agent for the McAllen sector: "The crooks are better equipped than...
Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island introduced a bill this month to increase the federal excise tax on cigarettes from 16 cents to 32 cents. He estimates his bill would raise $9 billion over three years. Critics complain that such a tax is regressive, hitting mainly the poor. New Jersey's Democratic Senator Bill Bradley has proposed a narrower bill, disallowing advertising costs for tobacco products as a tax-deductible business expense, which he says would raise $2 billion over three years. A number of corporations have moved to curb smoking in the workplace. For example, Chicago's Northern...
Everyday life in Amerika is not hard to recognize. People still complain about the government and the hard economic times, only now it is the Soviets who are to blame. Parents still have fights with their children, only now the argument over whether Dad has pulled strings to get his daughter into a dance company has nasty overtones of political collaboration. Even the smallest details are shrewdly familiar: the bored, hollow-eyed bureaucrat who processes Devin out of prison ("You got a red-tag file . . . It's probably screwed up, most of 'em are"); a forlorn production of The Fantasticks...