1.   Blubaugh told a Contra Costa County newspaper last year, when the complaints surfaced, that the city had a problem it needed to fix.

2.   Bitter complaints routinely surface at human-rights meetings, where political adversaries are often in close proximity.

3.   For decades it has moved them from parish to unsuspecting parish each time a complaint surfaced.

4.   Hale was allowed by the Army to retire quietly when the complaint first surfaced.

5.   He came under fire when complaints surfaced, including claims of severe whippings and the withholding of food by the staff.

6.   He said complaints have surfaced when consumers have failed to realize that waterproofing basements, particularly stone foundations, is not an exact science.

7.   Some minor complaints surfaced this week.

8.   The former Illinois congresswoman was hired by Mitsubishi to examine its workplace after the sexual harassment complaints surfaced.

9.   Virtually every member of Congress enlists government employees to do some campaign work, and similar complaints have surfaced occasionally in other campaigns.

10.   Whatever boardroom rivalries were involved in inviting all those lawyers in, when the sexual harassment complaints surfaced against Bolduc, the legal minds took over.