Then, since the data was already collected, the ethics committee in question seems to have awarded it an "approval lite".
Baalbaki, who presides over the council representing both bodies, has long maintained candidates can always apply and that the committee in question would review their requests.
Changes to the exam system have been anticipated by a series of newspaper leaks - an issue raised by the education select committee in questions to Mr Gove.
While the committee meeting in question, held last Wednesday, was described as convened to float ideas rather than commit to definite proposals, the briefings and counter-briefings – Treasury sources said the idea of a row was "nonsense" – hints at potentially significant tensions within the government over how to proceed.
The E.C.B. president, Jean-Claude Trichet, presents an annual report to the directly elected European Parliament and briefs Ms. Goulard's committee regularly in question-and-answer sessions known as a monetary policy dialogue.
The legitimacy of the sport -- and by extension the Olympic committee -- remains in question.
He also discussed a Senate colleague, Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, the independent who caucuses with the Democrats and whose committee chairmanship is in question after his endorsement of Mr. McCain.
The universities identified by the Web site said they would have their committees investigate the theses in question before announcing a course of action.
Following are excerpts from his testimony and exchanges between Mr. Greenspan and Senator Pete V. Domenici, Republican of New Mexico and the chairman of the committee, and Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, Democrat of Maryland and a member of the committee, in a question-and-answer session after the testimony, as recorded by Federal News Service Inc.
The Dell committee in particular questioned Mr. Icahn's suggestion that the plan could be financed in part by drawing upon Dell's existing cash and the sale of its accounts receivable, saying that the move would reduce future cash flow.
