At the directors' suggestion a committee was set up to look into their actions; the report's main recommendation was the abandonment of the Port Gordon extension.
The 80-year-old director denied suggestions he had been living as a fugitive in Europe.
Deputy Mayor Joseph J. Lhota and Robert Harding, the mayor's budget director, reject suggestions that the city is planning to borrow too much.
Judging by a talk given last week by its director, Neil O'Brien, suggestions that the Tory stream of ideas is drying up are premature.
Dan Bartlett, the White House communications director, discounted suggestions that Mr. Bush was being hypocritical in calling for an end to loans of a kind he once received.
The variations on Nixonian tics, like bringing his hand nervously to his throat, have the imposed feeling of a director's suggestions.
The managing director refuted suggestions SBS was moving away from covering football, saying "we are 100% committed to football" and only a "catastrophic" event would cause us to pull out of broadcasting the Fifa World Cup.
Mr. Blankfein also answered questions about the firm's board of directors, and suggestions from some quarters that his role as chairman and chief executive be split.
Even faced with his final film role, when cancer had limited his capabilities, Postlethwaite recounts his fiery rejection of a director's suggestion that the shooting of a scene be altered so he could sit in a chair.
The mayor and his budget director, Adam L. Barsky, dismissed suggestions that the budget would leave the city in a financial bind for the next mayor.
