Word: complained
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...doubt that some of El Salvador President José Napoleón Duarte's detractors, who complain because he negotiated with his daughter's kidnapers [WORLD, Nov. 4], might allow a relative to be slaughtered rather than give in to guerrilla demands. But I suspect their toughness would quickly give way to pleading if their own heads were placed on the block. John White Brookhaven, Miss. Faltering Philippines...
...complain? The ratings are hardly spectacular, but you're getting raves. Anyone else might get dumped on for trading in nostalgia or resorting to self-parody. What's your secret? Much love, Murray...
...somewhat stumbling and chaotic start. State bankers at the end of 1984 overused their new authority and went on such a wild lending spree that the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, had to tell them to stop. Factory bosses, in contrast, widely complain that they are still waiting for confirmation from local party and government officials that they can begin exercising the new freedoms they supposedly were granted at the start of 1985. For the first time, Deng is proposing to crimp seriously the powers and privileges of tens of thousands of national, provincial...
...released by the boom. In a country where patience is a hallowed virtue and time a bountiful commodity, the people of Shenzhen are in an uncharacteristic rush. "The ringing of a doorbell makes me shudder," confessed a recent letter writer to a Shenzhen youth newspaper. He went on to complain about how the visits of his friends cut into his day. If Shenzhen has faltered partly because the Chinese expected too much too fast, the city also owes its very existence to that same impulse to get things done now. Shenzhen proves that the vitality is there, waiting...
While the new laws have succeeded in making divorce less traumatic, there are growing com plaints about the way in which they instruct judges to divide assets acquired during marriage. Critics complain that while these laws require a fair division of "property," judges often do not include in that term such intangible assets as future earning capacity, professional education and medical insurance. These assets, they argue, usually benefit the husband but are acquired in part through the wife's sacrifice of her own career opportunities. "Let the wife share in the standard of living that she helped to build," says...