In many ways, the industry's complaints closely echoed the predictions the industry's leaders made when Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani first proposed a safety crackdown last spring.

Curses and complaints echoed back and forth, and men were stumbling over one another as they fumbled for their spears or breeches.

The complaints echo other assertions that Cairo has sunk into a morass of environmental problems.

And numerous complaints have echoed through the years.

To some degree, the complaints at Rikers echo many of the concerns that have accompanied the expansion of managed care among private health insurers.

Similar complaints echoed this week across much of the West - and not just from environmentalists.

Mr. Ginsburg's complaint echoed a similar protest earlier this month from one of President Clinton's lawyers, David E. Kendall.

The complaints echo those voiced by many black New Yorkers.

The Iowan's complaint echoed a concern often expressed two decades ago by small communities as the interstate highway system was being built and bypassed them.

This complaint echoed the view expressed on Thursday by Aleks Kozlovsky, the former vice minister of sports for the Soviet Union.