21. His testimony in the first trial echoes what prisoner advocates call a culture of rape in American prisons, in which weaker inmates are typically assaulted. 22. Housing advocates have called the HUD budget disastrous. 23. Hong Kong patient advocates accuse the medical establishment of trying to protect its own, and the advocates are calling for an independent body to regulate the profession. 24. Human rights advocates have called the case an attempt by the Kremlin to intimidate reporters working in Chechnya. 25. Human rights advocates have called for an end to U.S. oil purchases from Nigeria, which relies on petroleum exports for virtually all of its revenue. 26. In what cyber-privacy advocates are calling a partial victory, a ruling by a Pittsburgh judge would make it harder to unmask anonymous online authors. 27. Industry advocates have called labeling unnecessary, saying the crops are safe and that labeling would only fuel unwarranted fears. 28. It does not freeze premiums, a step Democrats and consumer advocates have called for, leaving open the possibility that rates could rise. 29. One particularly grievous result of the new regulations is creation of what advocates call a secondary backlog. 30. Public health advocates called for the FDA to reexamine its laissez-faire policy on regulating cigars. |