Stand in Line The complaints, however, represent yet another in a growing list of public relations problems for World Cup organizers.

How many complaints represents an avalanche?

He said complaints represent "less than one-tenth of one percent of our total business."

That month's complaints represented a 51 percent increase over the previous September.

Bureau officials said the company had done a good job, and that the complaints represented a small percentage of the tickets written.

If complaints represent an opportunity to increase profits, then the auto industry is sitting on a gold mine.

For the year, the 23,844 complaints represented a 47 percent improvement over 1987.

Common complaints like headaches may represent no or minimal abnormalities or a totally life-threatening disease.

Nonetheless, the complaint represents the opening gambit in what could be a long administrative and legal process before the commission releases the money to anyone.

The extreme complaints might not represent the attitudes of the whole group.