1.   Because of the new laws, food companies are complaining about meddling government.

2.   American companies are already complaining about labor shortages.

3.   American shipping companies complain that they cannot choose which stevedore companies or other vendors they will work with at the docks.

4.   American shipping companies have long complained that Japan ports and labor unions restrict their access to business through discriminatory licensing, scheduling and labor-contracting practices.

5.   American companies have complained for years that they lose billions of dollars in contracts every year to rivals that bribe their way to success overseas.

6.   American pharmaceutical companies complain that the requirement violates the WTO treaty, and they have asked the trade body to intervene.

7.   An early committee requirement for background checks on all workers was softened after the companies complained that it was too broad and would be too expensive.

8.   As formal trade barriers come down, Klein said, some companies complain that overseas competitors have found different, informal ways to stifle competition.

9.   Bay State companies have been complaining for months that they are having trouble filling jobs.

10.   But companies complain that it costs more to fight the suits than to settle them out of court, regardless of the merits.