But it is true, as his critics complain now and as he complains of the past.
Polar, which claims to generate almost 3% of the country's non-oil GDP and has 19, 000 employees, complains of harassment.
For instance, the local Porsche dealership is doing a roaring trade - and complains of struggling to keep up with demand.
Khaled Ireksousi, who heads the operation, complains of a lack of aid.
He complains of having to deal with 15 regulators in Europe, not to mention an interfering Federal Reserve, should a bank do any business in America.
Meanwhile, the Nour Party, which represents hard-line Salafists and came second to the Brotherhood in parliamentary elections, complains of being offered too few posts in government and of not being properly consulted.
I.s when a patient complains of back pain.
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"There is a kind of arrogance that other types of therapy are less effective, " complains University of Wisconsin-Madison psychologist Bruce Wampold.
The boss of one of the biggest American firms complains that a copy of one of his proposals ended up on the desk of a Japanese rival.
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Only old ladies answer the phone, complains Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies, a Republican polling firm.
There is also a problem with piracy, complains Dmytro Prykordonny of Ukraine's largest record company, Ukrainian Records.
Mr Snower complains that most of his colleagues' thinking about the economy has been conditioned by the Industrial Revolution, and that he and Assar Lindbeck, the Swedish economist with whom he has been studying this change, have had to come up with a new set of analytical tools to examine it.
By the by, though conscious that Western aid has kept millions of his people from starving, he complains about the relative failure of Western investors to put their faith in Ethiopia's economy.
Many of these defendants do later plead guilty before their trial begins, as Mr Straw complains, but half of them do so after the charges against them have been reduced.
"They want to get rid of me because I'm an oversight executive, " complains Paul Debban, president of JCC and the new chairman of the board.
Mr. Duncan also complains about the proliferation of laws named after crime, accident and disease victims.
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Ms Moyo rightly complains at the exclusion of big emerging economies (except Russia) from the G8.
If an employee complains about the behavior of another employee, find out what happened and take action.
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No one complains about the cost of term life insurance if they did not die in a given year.
And Smith complains that almost none of those secret tracking orders are ever made public, even long after the investigation ends.
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Fiasco embodies that ethos and should serve as an example for any grizzled rocker who complains about the lack of meaning in contemporary pop and hip-hop music.
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Mr Mbeki, who is virtually certain to become president when Nelson Mandela steps down next year, frequently complains about negative perceptions of South Africa and he will know he is risking adding to them.
But Seydina Senghor, executive director of Afrika Business Community and an advocate for the Mourides in New York, complains that the police make a habit of beating and harrassing black immigrants whether they have licences or not.
Franco Piro, Sicily's head of finance, complains that Sicily is owed 3 trillion lire by the central government.
"GEMA went way too far, " complains Jerry Sullivan, president of Local 600, which represents 8, 000 workers at Ford's historic Rouge manufacturing complex.
But, the industry complains, the same level of disclosure is not required of companies run by families, Russian oligarchs or the subsidiaries of multinationals.
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"If every single toy has a choke hazard warning on it, then the warning label becomes meaningless, " complains Alison Cassady, author of the U.S. PIRG report.
For instance, Manzoor Bahadur, who runs a large clothing retailer, complains that parents lose control of their children when their youngsters learn English, and says that children who spend time at school in Pakistan do no worse (and sometimes better) than those who stay in Bradford.
The rest of the private sector, meanwhile, complains at being unable to draw on a large and growing reservoir of investment capital.
One of his neighbours, Muhammad Idris, complains that cow carcasses are poisoning the river that is their main source of drinking water.
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