But the controversy has prompted a lay member of the abuse committee, a British abuse survivor named Peter Saunders, to call for Pell to be ejected from the church.
A woman who identified herself as Mr. Saber's daughter Randa, speaking Saturday on another Egyptian channel, said her father was being prompted to lie during the interview and was "afraid to talk".
The slowing economy has prompted businesses to lay off workers.
Slowing consumer and business demand has prompted companies to lay off some workers and ask others to accept lower pay.
And on Main Street, ordinary Americans, shocked at the sight of Wall Street imploding, were spending less and saving more, which, in turn, was prompting firms to lay off more workers.
Business groups argue that high taxes and strict regulations already make the city inhospitable to small businesses, and they say the paid sick-leave requirement would damage businesses that cannot afford to compensate employees for days off, prompting them to lay off workers.
Many had suffered cuts in financial support, prompting them to lay off staff and place needy people on wait-lists.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration disclosed that potential safety risks from health information technology--including reports of six patient deaths and several dozen injuries in the past two years--have prompted it to lay out proposals for regulating the devices for the first time.
Dr. Charles H. Roadman II, president of the American Health Care Association, said the cuts could prompt nursing homes to lay off employees, jeopardizing the quality of care at the very moment when the Bush administration is conducting an initiative to improve quality.
Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, reduced money for education in his first budget, and he frequently derides the state's education bureaucracy; the union, for its part, worries that the tax cap will prompt school boards to lay off teachers and curtail programs.
