Word: complains
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After 17 years on the throne-and nine assassination attempts-Hussein works hard at the job. He has become a good King-although his Palestinian subjects complain that he has too many corrupt relatives. His chronic fault is that he has always wavered in making decisions. Despite some vacillation last week, it seemed that Hussein finally had mustered the will to execute his purpose. As he said this summer, when he was beginning to lose patience with the guerrillas: "I am not the kind of person who will quit. This mission is part of me and I am part...
...industry's newer plants, but a large proportion of union members labor in aged factories. The very nature of the work remains the worst problem. Auto managers concede that most assembly jobs are hard and boring, but they figure that little can be done about it. Managers commonly complain about shoddy workmanship. Union members vehemently retort that the line moves too fast for them to do as good a job as they would like...
...Seventh's racial troubles are by no means caused only by black soldiers, who account for about 12% of the U.S. troops in West Germany. The blacks complain of harassment by white MPs and taunting by NCOs who threaten to "get me a nigger." Last week a Ku Klux Klan-style cross was found burning outside a Mannheim barracks: there have been at least two similar incidents at other Seventh Army bases. The Communist East German daily Neues Deutschland has seized on the cross burnings to portray the U.S. Army in Europe as a sort of K.K.K. expeditionary force...
Drivers also complain that the screens cut them off from an important fringe benefit of their jobs: conversation with passengers. Some riders, however, might appreciate the blessed and unusual quiet. Other experiments have had equally spotty success. More than 5,000 New York policemen now hold hack licenses and moonlight as cabbies. In addition, cops drive decoy cabs, and squad cars often follow taxis into high-crime areas. In some cities, a few cabs are equipped with police radios. Despite these measures, the cab crime rate in New York City has continued to soar. As one police official says: "Taxis...
...affair has started a serious debate about British accounting practices. Critics complain that laymen have been encouraged to regard accounting as an exact science, when in reality it involves frequent value judgments. Moreover, Britain lacks the equivalent of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to set rules for corporate disclosure, thus allowing management and its auditors to keep ordinary shareholders in the dark about the intricate formulas used to derive profit figures...