Word: complaintant
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...arbitrator ruled there wasn’t enough evidence to support the charges, and O’Hare withdrew his complaint. Biondi admitted that the team was distracted as it trained in Colorado Springs during the process...
...security chiefs have a complaint of their own. They are put in an impossible position, they argue, because while Arafat makes no bones about his wishes behind closed doors, he has refrained from publicly issuing decrees ordering the arrest of Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders or the disarming of Fatah militias. And in the absence of unambiguous public pronouncements by the chairman of the PA, Dahlan and Rajoub say it is difficult to sustain a crackdown. But Arafat remains reluctant to risk the ire of a substantial portion of Palestinian public opinion by openly declaring war on many...
...theft has become an American epidemic. Calls to the fraud-victims help line at a national credit bureau have nearly doubled from the 522,922 received in 1997, and 86,168 identity-theft cases were reported to the Federal Trade Commission last year, making it the top consumer-fraud complaint. Because law enforcement lacks the manpower to investigate all the small-potatoes cases and creditors shrink from costly prosecution, identity theft remains a lucrative, low-risk crime...
...face of few options, the sad trade continues. Every six months or so, according to Karachi airport immigration officer Haji Abdul Razzak, the broken and twisted body of a child jockey arrives back from the Gulf. Haji can't act without a complaint from a relative, and the $25,000 that accompanies a corpse buys many a family's silence. "They take the money and bury their child," says the official. Child smuggler Mohammed Aslam, 26, who was arrested in Karachi last spring, puts it this way: "We get money, the parents get money, the children get money. When everybody...
...rules of the new Asia soon enough: do not accept drugs from men on strange motorcycles unless they're offering cocaine; do hook up as soon as possible with whatever group is desperate enough to accept you. And she starts down the backpacking trail with equal measures of complaint and courage. Her journey is prosaic in the extreme, filled with hearty Aussie backpackers, haughty French, outwardly friendly but inscrutable native guides, beachside bars in Cambodia, beachside bars in Thailand, etc. Although Tansy enjoys it, the strongest sensation the reader is likely to get from her trip is the been there...