Mrs. Traoré, 31, has enlisted her husband's labor union and Senator Charles E. Schumer to fight for a visa, but they have butted up against the State Department's stance that it would be improper to grant a visa to someone, even a child, who is certain to remain in the country illegally.
"The affair of Marie Antoinette's necklace, with its sensational details – a diamond necklace so huge its wearer could barely stand, a queen supposedly granting improper assignations to a cardinal – gripped the whole of Europe in the mid-1780s.
After its own investigation late last year, Apple acknowledged improper dating of options grants to Steven P. Jobs, its chief executive, and others.
In releasing a 47-page report on elections in the city, Secretary of State Matt Blunt said most of the improper orders had been granted to people who had not registered by the Oct. 11 deadline.
Sources close to the investigation told me that Perry's threat happened as the unit's prosecutors were investigating whether Perry's political backers and campaign contributors had received preferential and improper treatment in receiving grants from an anti-cancer state agency, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
Poquott's lawsuit contends that it was improper for the State Department of Environmental Conservation to grant LIPA lead agency status on the limited environmental reviews on the 79-megawatt generators.
Naji's case exposes an immense failure of the Egyptian legal system: first, in its embrace of vague provisions that grant immense and improper discretion to state officials to interpret as they please and second, in its willingness to compromise universal human rights at the expense of false choices.
Biomet, a maker of orthopedic devices, will restate financial statements for 2006 because of improper accounting of stock-option grants.
The audit of the commission, a city department that has 40 employees and an annual budget of $10.2 million, concluded that a general lack of oversight contributed to problems that include irregularities in its grant programs and the improper use of administrative money.
Improper billing on four government research grants will cost Harvard Medical School $3.25 million.
