Word: complains
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Better housing, especially for enlisted families and bachelors, who often complain of a lack of privacy, is also promised by the Pentagon. So is an expansion of the Army's many educational programs. The toughest task of all may simply be to make daily military life more enjoyable, without impairing service efficiency or discipline...
Moderate and radical separatists share one goal for Quebec: total political separation from Canada. They complain that in predominantly English-speaking Canada (16,000,000, to 6,000,000 French Canadians) they are no more than second-class citizens. Too much wealth, Quebeckers complain, is concentrated in English-controlled Ontario, where roughly one-third of Canada's manufacturing industries are situated. There is doubt, however, that Quebec could develop its bountiful natural resources quickly enough to go it alone at any time in the immediate future. Still, as a recent terrorist manifesto put it, "We have had our fill...
...midget size, the fourth market challenges the established structure of the securities business and puts pressure on the exchanges to reduce their minimum commissions. The Securities and Exchange Commission has nourished the fourth market by urging institutions to trade stocks at the lowest possible cost. But stock exchange officials complain that off-the-board trading in listed securities tends to weaken the exchanges' auction market, on which all traders rely for prices...
...spoke briefly, and with a little bitterness, of the abuse given him whenever he argued or debated a conservative position. Keene was not the not only by radicals but also by those simply unwilling to listen to the conservative position. Keene was not the first nor the last to complain of being put up to ridicule...
Last week the commission came to the aid of credit-card users who complain that computers foul up their bills. It proposed new rules that will probably take effect early next year. Under them, if a customer writes in to a company to dispute a charge in his bill, the company cannot seek payment or interest charges until it investigates the item and fully explains it to the customer. Nor can one firm tell another firm that a customer is a bad credit risk without first informing him. In still another move last week, the FTC aimed to bring more...