The senators have said that applications already submitted under that preference will be completed; no one with a valid application who is waiting in line will be left out.
Gahl says that applications already submitted will still be considered for such a full investigation.
"There are a number of applications already submitted," said Philip Robertson, the adjudicator from Guinness World Records who witnessed the attempt.
That means, the company said, the city can stop future applications, but not ones already submitted under the previous law.
The changes, meant, though, that many tour operators had to refile applications that they had already submitted, in some cases just weeks before their licenses expired.
"People are hysterical because we are right in the middle of exam period, and they have already submitted applications to university medical faculties that have the name of Aleph as their prep school," said Takeshisa Ueda, the school's director.
"We are seriously considering enrolling our son in a private school and have already submitted applications because we don't see how the debacle at Amity is going to improve any time soon," said Ms. O'Brien, co-chairwoman of Amity Community for Education, a tri-town political action committee.
"I've already submitted my application to replace her," the mayor said, deadpan.
Of those 12, five have been awarded Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) accreditation, one has been granted interim accreditation with the RMTC while a further three have already submitted an application with that organization.
But he didn't file for a patent until 1959, after Townes and Schawlow had already submitted their application.
They have already submitted 600,000 applications, said Michael Slater, the deputy director of Project Vote.
