Word: complain
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...municipal councils; in Riyadh. The vote will take place in three stages, starting in November after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and finishing in January 2005. The elections are part of a campaign to introduce political reform to the tradition-bound country, although Saudi women's rights activists complain that suffrage will not be extended to women...
...wasting time at the wall can separate medal winners from also-rans. Phelps hasn't perfected his turns, says Bowman, because he is simply too good a swimmer. "He'd think, I'll just swim a little harder, and then say, 'That was a best time. How can you complain about that...
...labels on real tones. Industry sources say that operators, too, are unhappy with the share that labels are seeking, though Vodafone's head of music Edward Kershaw says, "I don't think [the record labels] are being unrealistic." Not to be forgotten are the music publishers and artists, who complain their rights are ignored. "For the most part, they are not getting paid," says David Simmons, chief executive of Songseekers International, a London company that represents EMI's publishing division in ring-tone matters. He says publishers last year collected just $3.6 million in ring-tone-related fees in Britain...
...officials in Riyadh announced the country's first-ever nationwide elections, to choose half the members of 178 municipal councils, in three stages between November and January 2005. The polls are part of a broader campaign to introduce political reform in the conservative kingdom, but women's-rights advocates complain that eligibility will probably not be extended to women...
...Still, many accuse the government of not doing enough. Refugees complain they are rarely welcomed into a South Korean society that views them as unskilled communist rubes. If their integration is viewed as a dress rehearsal for the eventual reunification of the two Koreas, it isn't going well. Says Lee Jung Hoon, an expert on North Korea at Yonsei University in Seoul: "South Korea just isn't ready...