Word: complains
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Fearful and resentful, European nations have built a daunting array of barriers against Japanese goods; Italy alone has 46 import quotas directed specifically against them. Asian leaders also complain. Antonio Villegas, mayor of Manila, recently inveighed against the "insidious Nipponization of the Philippines"?then excused himself to greet a visiting delegation of Japanese advertising men. Says K.S. Yossundara, an official of the Bank of Thailand: "The average Thai wakes up to the call of a Japanese alarm clock and probably brushes his teeth with Japanese dental cream. His car or motorcycle is Japanese, and so are his shirt...
That omission caused many responsible Southern officials to complain, with considerable justification, that the nation was following a double racial standard: nonaction in the North, stern demands for integration in the South. Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, who has urged an end to racial discrimination, said that it was "clearly a one-sided decision; the court is still talking about the South; the North is still going free." There was the expected outcry from intransigent segregationists. Alabama Governor George Wallace called the decision "arbitrary, asinine and illogical," and claimed that it is now "legal to bus little children to kingdom come...
Many Cambodians would applaud. The somewhat mystical Premier has succeeded admirably in unifying the country, but students, intellectuals and other early supporters of the regime are beginning to complain of drift and disorganization. The government is just barely holding its own against the 50,000 Communist troops in Cambodia, and it is slowly losing ground in its struggle against inflation and other symptoms of war. Lately, stories of indolence and corruption in the Cabinet have been circulating in the capital. Crisis or no, it was, as one Western diplomat put it, "a good time to change the government...
Part of the strategy, as Krause explains it, is to complain a lot. He complained at practices when everyone didn't have to do the same workout When roommates for the Penn trip this winter were assigned far in advance by alphabetical order. Krause refused to cooperate. He submitted a report to the Eliot kitchen asking that the serving women smile more and serve hotter food...
Adults who complain about the noisome clutter of commercials on television might think themselves lucky after watching programs beamed at children. American youngsters are beguiled, bullied and often bamboozled by a fury of hard-sell promotions featuring vigorous pitchmen like Captain Crunch, Tony the Tiger and Fred Flintstone. On Saturday mornings about half of the nation's children aged two to eleven watch television cartoon shows. The National Association of Broadcasters' code allows these nonprime-time programs to be freighted with up to 16 minutes of plugs an hour; on prime-time features for adults, the limit...