Word: complained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying it was always to be on the lookout for good weather. A perfect theme for this time of year I thought to myself After all my freshman year it rained for two week straight in April And nobody really does anything in spring reading period but complain about how lousy it is outside...
...time Mike gets safely back to the good old U.S. of A., a few soreheads may complain that Bruce hasn't really got the hang of Japan and that what we have here is sort of a dumb parody of a caricature. Or you might hear that the language is not actually ironic and incisive and all the rest, but more like a transcript of lonely guy bar talk, right there at the pitch it reaches when happy hours are ending. Don't listen to the gloom and doom. But if you do and decide not to give Tokyo Woes...
...stage, on the other hand, is both colorful and suitably. The runaways sing, declaim complain, fight, and run around in the freedom of a worn-down playground, replete with traffic signs and spray-painted graffiti on its wails. The band, visible through a wire fence off to the side, provides a steady but often disengaging sountrack for the runaways, exploits. The show peaks in Act II when the Inner City Breakers, a young street-styled trio, stage a friendly invasion onto the playground and perform some impressive rounds of break dancing. Although visibility could be better, the dancers bring...
...American firms and workers." In the Senate, the Finance Committee reported out legislation that would require Reagan to take action offsetting the increase in Japanese auto imports. "This bill takes the position that unfair trade practices are not going to be removed if all the U.S. does is complain," said Missouri Republican John Danforth, sponsor of the Senate measure. The U.S., he added, must find ways of "inflicting at least some economic pain on the Japanese...
Even if imported products meet Japanese standards, businessmen complain, the cost and effort required to substantiate that claim are virtually Sisyphean. A new pharmaceutical product, for example, must be tested on more than 150 Japanese patients at five or more medical facilities, even if it has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or another national drug- testing agency. The application data demanded for each new product run from 5,000 to 20,000 pages, and they are reviewed behind closed doors. Says Klaus Kran, president of Searle Yakuhin K.K., the Osaka-based affiliate of the U.S. drug...