Word: complains
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What is the main cause for the sharp rise in meat and other food prices, and who benefits most from it? Consumers often complain that big business is the culprit, but that, in fact, is a bad rap. Supermarkets operate on profit margins as thin as wrapping paper; .9% on sales is the current average margin. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. lost $55 million last year largely because of its "WHO" discounting drive. The so-called middlemen are also largely blameless, though President Nixon last year fingered them as the main perpetrators of the food price jump. The meat...
...Bankers complain that the result is a scramble by corporations to take advantage of a bargain prime rate. "We are being inundated with business loans," says John R. Bunting, chairman of Philadelphia's First Pennsylvania Banking & Trust Co., one of the prime-rate raisers. "Too much of our money is going to our prime-rate customers, restricting the flow to our other customers," such as small businesses and individuals seeking personal loans. There are even stories about corporations borrowing as much as they can at the prime rate and then lending some of the money back to the banks...
Government requirements do involve a substantial administrative burden. Fantastic amounts of time and energy have been devoted in this University to gathering data, obtaining computer printouts, and preparing hundreds of pages of reports to HEW. Within the faculties, some persons complain of the extra work involved in making a special attempt to identify promising women and minority candidates and in documenting these efforts. Despite these costs, I believe that the extra work has been worthwhile. Our poor record prior to the past four years suggests that special efforts have indeed been necessary. In addition, the efforts we have made have...
Such paternalism, the strikers commonly complain, insults their "digni-dad." To get a raise, the workers must fulfill unbearably demanding production quotas, such as sewing six belts per minute onto finished slacks when most say that it is possible to do only five. Bishop Metzger estimates that employees take home an average $69 per week, while unionized workers at the Levi-Strauss and Tex-Togs plants in El Paso net $102. That, says the bishop, "sounds more like a living wage...
...from one Baruch Zaki Mizrachi, an alleged Israeli spy who confessed (probably under torture) that he had been assigned to thwart any land-based attack at Bab el Mandeb. Israel promptly denied it-and still does. Meanwhile, militarily powerless Yemen can do nothing about Israel's penetration except complain...