All have made formal requests for transfers but all are still waiting, months later.
Walker confirmed that of the six cities interested in staging the World Championship three - the others were believed to be Birmingham and Liverpool - had made formal bids.
The Biovail Corporation, a Canadian drug maker, said yesterday that the Securities and Exchange Commission had made formal its inquiry into the company's accounting and financial disclosure practices.
Two big benefit managers, Express Scripts and Caremark Rx, have made formal promises to inform their customers fully about the manufacturers' payments.
But Seydina Senghor, executive director of Afrika Business Community and an advocate for the Mourides in New York, complains that the police make a habit of beating and harrassing black immigrants whether they have licences or not.Few Mourides have made formal complaints, however.
Mr. Segal acknowledged that the academy had made unauthorized alterations to the property in the past, but he called them "comparatively minor things" and said that the school had made formal compensatory plantings and procedures to rectify any problems.
Like Mr. Nguyen, some maintain that they never signed up with lawyers, but found that claims had been filed on their behalf (about 50 people have made formal complaints to the claims facility along these lines).
Already, some of the companies, known as pharmacy benefit managers, have made formal promises to inform their customers fully about any rebates or other deals they make with manufacturers.
An extreme example of the divide at Ford is the Wixom plant, where Ford says 32 of the roughly 700 women on the plant's current payroll -- nearly 5percentt -- have made formal complaints about harassment since 1995.
