Word: complains
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Even though the city of Miami has the third worst poverty rate in the nation, there have been few credible attempts to help the lowest earners find housing. One problem is weak government oversight of development--a sign, some complain, that Miami's sun-soaked complacency has addled its political leaders as well. "Planning is disdained as the enemy here," says Gihan Perera, director of the Miami Workers Center. Local anger boiled over recently at a housing scandal that Perera's group helped the Miami Herald expose: Miami-Dade's government housing agency paid millions of dollars to politically connected...
...most vocal critics is their sense that the CDC's devotion to pure science--a long-established mandate to follow the trail of medical evidence wherever it leads--has been sabotaged. AIDS specialists today feel that they are being constrained not to say anything positive about condoms, while others complain that more cash bonuses are being given to administrators than to researchers. "It's the policies and the direction of the institute I'm most concerned about," says Dr. Brad Woodruff, an epidemiologist in the organization's Maternal and Child Nutrition Branch. Woodruff is particularly incensed that the agency...
...some within the agency complain that the main difference they have seen so far is that their work is more likely to be second-guessed. "Scientists feel less empowered to make decisions," says Dr. Stephen Cochi, who has worked at the CDC for 24 years, currently in the Global Immunization Division. "There's more bureaucratic filtering." Decisions that were routinely made in Atlanta, he and others say, must now be approved by higher-ups in Washington. Requests for anything but emergency travel have to be made 90 days in advance...
...your production. You thought CGI aged quickly, so you went for macro photography and Peter Parks’ filming chemical reactions. So where do you stand? DA: (Laughs) I am OK with film being immortal, but not humans.THC: I have to go back to class now. DA: Do not complain. Enjoy it. It’s the best time… I wish I could go to class now. THC: Last question… what was there between Commencement at Harvard and “Pi”?DA: A master’s at AFI. Well, the twenties...
...Slater said. S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, commended Harvard’s commitment to diversity, but said that the University could do more to support minority students once they arrive on campus. “African-American students complain to me regularly about the paucity of African-Americans in visible positions here in the administration and otherwise,” Counter said. “Outside of African-American Studies, we see very few African-Americans here who are available to give the African-American students the kind of nurturing they need...