Science and Nature said it was their policy not to comment on the fate of a rejected paper, or whether it had even been submitted to them.
And waiting in the wings is a fourth company that has ordered parts for a design that has not even been submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Several barriers may preclude a manuscript from even being submitted, such as language barriers, inexperience with scientific writing or lack of guidance for how to develop a given manuscript.
In choosing to give, in the explanatory statement, a lengthy and detailed description of possible breaches of fundamental rights by some Member States, this report has led to claims and accusations against these Member States that cannot be refuted and have not even been submitted to a democratic vote because they are not included in the text of the motion for a resolution.
Still, objections continued to be submitted, even after the May 13 filing deadline.
The Supreme Court broadly interpreted Section 5's scope in Allen v. State Board of Election (1969), holding that any change in a jurisdiction's voting practices, even if minor, must be submitted for preclearance.
Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, said Wednesday that the commander's request would be submitted this week, even though no decisions would be made until the administration had finished its newest review of Afghanistan policy.
How far China's decision-making, opaque even to its own officials, will be submitted to outside scrutiny is questionable.
Now the administration says that even the letter of intent can be submitted as late as Dec. 14.
That is a big change from a few years ago when some government ministries would request that questions be submitted by fax, even though they did not have working fax machines.
