31. Privacy advocates have called for tighter laws for several years. 32. Some advocates also called for using the federal money to reduce co-premium payments. 33. Speier, a Democrat, had watched the measure die last month in the same committee, which one consumer advocate called a graveyard for consumer-protection measures. 34. Tenant advocates called the increases a giveaway to landlords, while landlord representatives termed them insufficient to meet their increasing costs. 35. The legislative push is a reaction to what its advocates call overprescription of the drugs. 36. Though not illegal, consumer advocates call that a conflict of interest. 37. Traffic safety advocates have been calling for change for some time. 38. Privacy advocates called it the most sweeping privacy law in decades and said it would have a major impact on health care. 39. A nationwide strike called by advocates of constitutional reform turned violent Friday with mobs killing two policeman, looting shops and breaking windows in the capital. 40. A nationwide general strike called by advocates of constitutional reform turned ugly Friday when a crowd beat a plainclothes police officer to death. |