• But Steve McNamara, general secretary of the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association - representing London cabbies - complained of "chaos" on London's roads as a result of 30 miles of Games Lanes for the use of the Olympic family.

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  • We attended a town hall meeting in Detroit during our poverty tour where parents complained of 25-year-olds who came of working age before the Great Recession who have never had a job in their lives.

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  • Third on the all-time list was the most complained-about ad of 2010.

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  • Despite losing openside flanker Will Skinner shortly before kick-off - he complained of a dizzy spell having suffered a head injury last weekend - the hosts struck first when Evans stroked over a fourth-minute penalty.

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  • The Observer reported that the three priests and one former priest - from the diocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh - complained to the Pope's representative to Britain, nuncio Antonio Mennini, of what they claimed was the cardinal's inappropriate behaviour towards them in the 1980s.

    BBC: Cardinal Keith O'Brien

  • But in recent years, many have complained - about one third of noise complaints in Taipei involve remodelling.

    BBC: Taiwan's noise pollution dilemma

  • When I not only complained of side-effects, but also asked for either a lower dose or a lesser medication?

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  • More than half of those polled who consumed more than three servings of tea, coffee or cola a day complained of stress-related problems.

    BBC: Caffeine 'reduces productivity'

  • Yet most valley veterans still think there is no reason to worry: people complained about similar quality-of-life problems 20 years ago, but most stayed.

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  • The 19-year-old -- who dominated the event last year culminating in her stunning Beijing win -- had complained of having a problem with her ankle after Sunday's first round heat.

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  • Unhappy about these Facebook postings, at least two of those clubs -- Italy's AC Milan and Anderlecht of Belgium -- have complained to FIFA about what they claim is "defamation and calumny".

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • The Alliance Trust leadership first came under intense pressure from Laxey last year, when the hedge fund manager - which owns 1.7% of the company - complained that the discount on the Dundee company's assets had been too large.

    BBC: Alliance Trust defeats shareholder's review bid

  • Parents complained of a lack of choice and of high-handed treatment from the school board: one aggrieved father who grew up in bureaucracy-racked India said the board's behaviour reminded him of home.

    ECONOMIST: Has Wake County thrown out the baby with the bathwater?

  • One person who contacted the commission complained of a 17-hour gap between serving dinner at 16:30 GMT and breakfast at 10:00 GMT.

    BBC: Edwin Poots defends Northern Ireland care workers

  • Although the activists also complained about the non-payment of salaries and the introduction of a new tax system, most of their hostility was directed at Rwanda.

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  • Salford College appeared to have done even worse but - prompted by media inquiries - complained on the eve of publication that its results had been wrongly reported.

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  • Some German papers have already complained of British opt-outs.

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  • Only last month, members of that out-of-date forum known as Parliament complained about Mr Cook's obstruction of their attempts to unravel the decisions made in their name in Sierra Leone.

    ECONOMIST: Foreign policy

  • The EU's anti-fraud agency, OLAF, has complained loudly and crossly about the near-total lack of co-operation from its Bulgarian counterparts.

    ECONOMIST: Bulgarian corruption

  • At a June hearing, Rep. Kenny Marchant, R-Texas, told Miller that some tax-exempt groups had complained of harassment.

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  • When businessmen complained about an import-duty surcharge of 8%, which was supposed to help them but instead pushed up their costs of production, he halved the surcharge.

    ECONOMIST: India

  • The head of US air forces in the Pacific recently complained about the difficulty of simply maintaining these 30-year-old fighters.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • After Husna had a few times complained of not having money, of wearing torn clothes and broken-heeled shoes, K.K. instructed that she be given a tiny allowance.

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  • One of the things that some of the good-government groups have complained about is this deal that was cut for the NRA in terms of moving around disclosure requirements.

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  • Yet, the jury at Bristol Crown Court heard within days of the Lapland New Forest attraction opening on the Hampshire-Dorset border, hundreds of disgruntled visitors complained to trading standards officials that they had been ripped off.

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  • Those who worked with what was alive in an infinity of yesterdays complained that even though they had no good explanation of why punctuated-equilibrium theory worked, you couldn't argue with the evidence in the rocks, maths or no maths.

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  • Many community-type forums complained about the lack of effectiveness of many of the suggested detailed solutions.

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  • In fairness to the many passholders who complained of long lines and sold-out screenings, this year's event was not problem-free.

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  • European anti-trust authorities say Intel broke the rules in competing with Advanced Micro Devices --a move that throws a spotlight on business practices AMD has complained about for years and put at the core of an anti-trust lawsuit it filed against Intel in U.S. courts in 2005.

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  • European anti-trust authorities say Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) broke the rules in competing with Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people )--a move that throws a spotlight on business practices AMD has complained about for years and put at the core of an anti-trust lawsuit it filed against Intel in U.S. courts in 2005.

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