Word: complaining
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That's because Muto must be approved by Japan's parliament-and some opposition party politicians say he's the wrong man for the job. Members of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which controls the upper house of the Diet, complain that Muto, a career bureaucrat who has spent some 35 years in the Ministry of Finance, will be too cozy with Fukuda's administration at a time when the central bank needs to exercise leadership and independence. After growing relatively briskly over the last five years, Japan's economy now appears to be slipping into a malaise...
Dodging countless tourists, iPod-carrying speed walkers, and the often-inclement Cambridge weather can make Harvard students dread the walk to 10 a.m. section. But even Quadlings have little to complain about, according to a recent study that named Cambridge America’s most pedestrian-friendly city...
...American workers as well. Everyone benefits from the lower prices that result from companies moving overseas. Globalization doesn’t hit only the U.S. either. This year, some 10,000 Chinese factories are expected to relocate to cheaper spots like Indonesia and Vietnam. We won’t complain when laptop prices drop. Still, Obama hopes to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement, his most perplexing proposal yet. He wants to impose labor and environmental standards on Canadian and Mexican companies, so U.S. companies face “fair” competition. Such standards, however, impede competition...
...Critics might still complain that Plan Colombia - which has made the South American nation the third-largest recipient of U.S. military aid outside Iraq - is ignoring its original purpose. But the Bush Administration would argue that by beheading the FARC, Plan Colombia is actually fulfilling its anti-drug mandate - because at least half of the between $500 million and $1 billion the FARC is believed to earn each year is derived from protecting Colombian cocaine trafficking. The other half is made via ransom kidnapping - the FARC currently holds more than 700 hostages in its jungle redoubts, including three Americans - which...
...know, you didn’t give me much trouble growing up, Thesis darling. Some of your friends caused their parents no end of stress, but I never really had cause to complain. That’s not to say we didn’t have our rough spots. Round about December you made it really hard for me to give you structure, and for a while I just didn’t know what to do. And that week in February when I couldn’t figure out how to work with you, when I had no idea...