The administration probably calculates that, though Congress may grumble at letting India off the hook so comprehensively, it will do little.

ECONOMIST: Diplomacy and proliferation

It is not that people think out-of-town MPs should sleep in the streets, but they do grumble at providing them with the cleaning women and flat-screen televisions that many would love to be able to afford themselves.

ECONOMIST: Parliamentary expenses

Firefighters grumble that their lives are put at risk saving rich people's vacation homes.

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Offshore shrimpers, out at sea in bigger boats for weeks at a time, grumble that the inshore fleet steals their baby shrimps before they can grow and head out to sea.

ECONOMIST: The shrimping industry

As a result, the Confederation of British Industry, a big-business lobby, worries about underinvestment, and officials at the Bank of England grumble about firms' reluctance to lower hurdles.

ECONOMIST: Corporate finance

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