But as housing prices and the pressure for development have risen, critics, including planners, civic groups, council members and community leaders, complain that the board has, in hundreds of decisions and with little public oversight, reshaped neighborhoods and altered the fabric of life in communities across the city.
Despite the rising revenue, critics have complained that while abatements need the approval of the City Council, they are only presented to the full council after terms are negotiated privately by developers and members of the Schundler administration.
("New York Is Lagging as Seas and Risks Rise, Critics Warn," Sept. 10) Is this all utterly new?
But by its fifth anniversary in 1987, revenues had begun to rise and critics began to change their tune, with stories in other newspapers describing USA Today as innovative, even revolutionary.
With federal expenditures rising sharply, the critics demanded big cutbacks, and they are still demanding them.
You would think so to listen to a rising chorus of critics within his own party, the rightist Likud.
Now he is defending the diplomacy that led to that near miss against a rising chorus of critics at home and abroad.
In the meantime, a rising chorus of critics have proposed drastically overhauling tenure, or in the case of some, like Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, abolishing it altogether.
Another reason was the rising concerns of critics and viewers that advertisers wielded too much control over the content of the shows they sponsored.
