Word: complainer
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...some of the old attitudes - the prickly sensitivity, the lurking sense of humiliation and the obsession with uniqueness - never entirely disappeared. You notice it in the common ambivalence toward "foreign understanding." Japanese often complain of not being understood by the outside world. But foreigners who appear to understand Japan too well sometimes cause discomfort, as though they were spies or intruders in some sacred place. There is often an air of triumph, a happy sense of being reassured, when Japanese critics can point out how yet another foreign attempt to analyze Japan is based on fatal misunderstandings...
...Internet. The knottier issue, though, is of sales tax. Say you live in New York and order a book online from Amazon.com (based in Washington state). Technically, you owe New York sales taxes. And states like New York - not to mention the brick-and-mortar stores in them, who complain that Internet outfits are being granted unfairly tax-free status - are looking for permission to start collecting...
...deans and administrators are wont to complain, increasing an operating budget by $10 million—the most expensive estimate for the living wage’s cost—is no easy task. But neither is raising $1 million in a day, as Rudenstine managed to do during his capital campaign heyday. Giving the lowest-paid workers a big raise will cause friction with the workers just above them on the pay scale, perhaps requiring a small raise for the second group as well. But if the University really wanted to increase its budget, it could—causing...
...Drug war critics in Latin America complain that while the increasingly militarized nature of drug interdiction efforts are unlikely to resolve the problem of drug abuse in the U.S., it does wreak havoc with democracy in the region. In Colombia, for example, narco-traffickers have found that the best way to protect their investment from interdiction is to enlist the support of either leftist guerrillas or rightist paramilitaries, providing the gunmen with the revenues to keep their war going in perpetuity. And just as much as the U.S. government uses economic aid to enlist the support of Latin American governments...
...proctor in Massachusetts Hall I must complain when the protesters are permitted to chant outside this residential dorm until after midnight, preventing students from studying, relaxing or sleeping. Wasn’t this a case of disturbing the peace? Why did the protestors’ “right” to go unmolested and unaccountable trump my students’ right to peace and quiet? Why weren’t the protestors dispersed by the police...