"Tudjman's assumption is that there will be grumbling and complaints from the international community, but nothing serious". a senior United Nations official said.
But … "are the wheels coming off London's Games planning or are Britons just finding excuses to grumble?" " … Complaints are to be expected, especially in a country where moaning might be regarded as an Olympic event in its own right," he wrote.
"There is so much grumbling and complaints.
Endless queues, delays and terrorist-induced anxiety combine to convert the romance of flight into a grumble of complaint.
"How can we expect anyone to come here if we aren't here?" grumbles one.Such complaints, however, may soon wear thin.
But out of fear of the consequences, or residual loyalty, almost all Cubans still seem unwilling to go beyond grumbling or deluging the ombudsman with complaints.
"There was a lot of mumbling and grumbling" about the letter, she said, but complaints to the rabbi were made in private.
Indeed, grumbling by many bond investors has reached a low roar, with complaints that the central bank has been complacent.
Now many businesses have the opposite complaint, and grumble that the border has been battened down so tightly that legal immigrants are being turned away in large numbers or simply never try to venture across.
Two weeks into the shoot, many crew members were grumbling that they had not been paid; the producers, they said, had shrugged off their complaints.
Of course, Americans travelling abroad may still find dinner-table complaints about the lack of places in good programmes a welcome change from grumbling about the cost of college tuition.
