When the bureau tested bills with more intense colors, like purple and magenta, focus groups thought they looked fake.
Correction: January 29 , 2005 Saturday An obituary on Jan . 10about R. Bruce McGill, former president of the Educational Records Bureau, a testing company, included an erroneous reference from a company official about the development of an admission test for private schools in New York.
Mr. Cresce said the bureau was testing different ways of asking about Hispanic ethnicity.
Fred Gutt, a special agent in the Seattle office of the F.B.I., said the bureau had tested the strap but could not lift clear fingerprints from it.
His father, who is retired, was the president of the Educational Records Bureau, a student testing organization in New York.
The numbers come from the American Community Survey, a new approach to census data collection that the bureau has been testing in 31 counties nationwide.
A former schools superintendent, Dr. McGill was president of the Educational Records Bureau, a nonprofit testing agency, for 16 years starting in 1972.
In response to Mr. Zhang's pleas, workers from the local environmental protection bureau arrived and tested the river water and found it highly alkaline.
There are those seventeen-year-old twins from Hicksville, Long Island, Jim and John Cunningham, who write their own songs, use their friends as a testing bureau, and market the approved numbers — which they sing themselves — to millions of their fellow-teenagers.
Correction: October 16, 2001, Tuesday A front-page article on Saturday about communications between the F.B.I. and other agencies in the anthrax investigation misstated the number of suspicious letters received at NBC News that were delayed at the bureau before being tested and reported to city officials.
She added that the bureau spent years testing a question about race, so it was remarkable that the bureau would add a question about citizenship without the same level of thorough vetting.
