In recent years, a number of Vietnamese bloggers have sharply criticized plans to allow Chinese firms (using imported Chinese workers) to mine bauxite under alleged sweetheart deals with government and party leaders.
Out of those meetings came the controversial and heavily criticized decision to allow Lehman Brothers, a Goldman competitor, to go belly up, and to bail out AIG. Starting with $85 billion from the Fed, taxpayers have pumped a total of $170 billion into the giant insurance company.
Lawmakers from Mr. Abe's own Liberal Democratic Party have openly criticized a push to allow the sale of nonprescription drugs on the Internet — a move that would hurt brick-and-mortar pharmacists, a vocal interest group in Japan.
Perhaps Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has been criticized for refusing to allow the largest planned protest to be held in Central Park, could have avoided the heat by simply putting some razor wire around the park and calling it a Free-Speech Zone.
Several Los Angeles emergency room physicians on Friday criticized a decision to allow a two-day rave at the Los Angeles County fairgrounds this Halloween after two young women died of apparent drug overdoses after attending a similar event earlier this month.
American Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee, have joined in criticizing the decision to allow the broadcasts in France.
Mr. Crook criticized lawmakers for failing to allow for more public discussion about this issue.
Similarly, he criticized Mr. Bush's proposal to allow some private investment of Social Security funds.
Mikey Weinstein, a graduate of the Air Force Academy and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a watchdog group, criticized Admiral Fowler's decision to allow the practice to resume.
The iPad has also been criticized for its inability to allow users to multitask, but the company announced on Friday that it will have that ability in the fall.
