31.   The agency has been criticized for letting cases languish, sometimes for years.

32.   The aggressive rating cuts may not mollify investors who sharply criticized the agencies for being slow to act in recent weeks.

33.   The agency had been criticized by Republican congressional leaders as being slow to approve drugs.

34.   The credit agencies have been criticized in the past for not moving quickly enough.

35.   The mayor has long criticized the agency as being particularly bloated and inefficient, and he has tried to sell off one of the hospitals.

36.   The report also criticized the agency for not giving guidance to local school districts when they purchase food to supplement that which is provided by the federal government.

37.   These days few in government want to criticize the agencies, choosing instead to focus on what they are doing right.

38.   They have criticized the agency for effectively blessing the profits generators have made during those nonemergency periods by excluding them from investigation.

39.   When he shut down timber sales more than three years ago, the federal judge bitterly criticized federal agencies for ignoring and circumventing environmental laws.

40.   While academic scientists and environmentalists largely welcomed the rules, to be enacted this spring, some criticized the agency for seeking only voluntary protections.