A spokesman for the Sentencing Council said: "[We are] grateful for the justice select committee's careful consideration of our proposals.
"Good negotiations took place, and in consideration of our new proposals, it is now up to the P5-plus-1 to demonstrate its willingness and sincerity to take appropriate confidence-building steps in the future," he said.
Mr. Tokofsky said that he had asked the schools superintendent, Roy Romer, to allow at least a month for consideration of his proposal, but that the request was rejected.
Alan Marcus, a spokesman for the company, a subsidiary of Allied Waste Industries, added that Mr. Gregorio's appeal should not affect either New York City's or New Jersey's consideration of the proposal.
A City Council hearing on legislation to govern how former mayors handle papers and other records from their administrations has been delayed, pending consideration of a proposal by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
An article on Thursday about the Obama administration's consideration of a proposal to allow homeowners with government-backed mortgages to refinance them at today's lower interest rates misstated Edward DeMarco's title at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
In November 1934, Lester Markel, the Sunday editor of The New York Times, wrote to José Raúl Capablanca, a former world chess champion: "Dear Mr. Capablanca: After full consideration of the proposal, we have come to the conclusion that space conditions are such that we cannot consider the addition of another department at this time.
