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

Ordinary folk grumble at the scores of pardons issued to convicted chaebol executives under Lee Myung-bak, the outgoing president (himself a former executive in the Hyundai group of companies).

ECONOMIST: Presidential politics in South Korea

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.

ECONOMIST: George Bush is not the only one clearing brush

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

At the top of the grumble board?

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The liberal grandchildren of legalization advocates will grumble about the soulless marijuana corporations and the conservative grandchildren of anti-legalization activists will play golf at the country club with marijuana inc. executives, toast George Soros at the 19th hole afterwards and discuss how they can get the damn liberals in Congress to stop blocking capital gains tax cuts.

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