Word: complained
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Inevitably, some critics complain that Beijing has released few details of where the money will go and that some of the funding is not new: the package, for example, includes $147 billion for reconstruction in areas of Sichuan province that were devastated by a 2008 earthquake, money that would have been spent in any event. But wherever you go in China now, you come across projects that boggle the mind. In late March, for example, the government began soliciting bids for the Hong Kong - Zhuhai - Macau highway, a bridge-and-tunnel complex 16.5 miles (26.6 km) long that will allow...
...never wanted to get adjusted to my income because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it's not modest at all. I have no right to complain." - On the high salary she earned as a corporate attorney before becoming a judge...
...According to the Financial Times, "Hopes that GM can follow a similarly rapid path through court are being dimmed by a building backlash from lawmakers, some of whom are claiming that creditors' rights are being given short shrift, while others complain about job cuts and the closure of dealerships...
...vital. This appears to be part of the Administration's strategy to emphasize rights where it can make real progress, and not just for rhetoric. But in the past, activists say, they expected new Presidents to talk tough on rights first and then, if necessary, throttle back. Obama, they complain, has sold out on the opening gambit...
...denominations of Nicaraguan tender and therefore the most commonly used. "This looks like European money," says one taxi driver, in a voice hinting pride, as he twisted and creased the bill in cruel defiance of its seemingly indestructible space-age properties. Others have described it as "play money" or complain that its gloss makes it "slip through my hands...