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Senator Schumer, who had maintained that the administration was trying to give the judiciary an ideological cast, said simply that he would study the nominees closely.

They maintained that the administration ignored the needs of poor urban children, female athletes and the disabled; used inflammatory racial language; appointed very conservative judges; and opposed diversity in higher education.

Mr. Bush maintained that the administration had made offers to Iran as part of the European Union's diplomatic efforts as long ago as 2003, including promising American support for membership in the World Trade Organization and an easing of sanctions to allow the sale of spare airplane parts.

On the separate subject of Iran, Ms. Rice and Mr. Hadley maintained that the administration had not compromised its tough stance against rewarding Iran in the negotiations to end what is suspected of being a nuclear arms program, even though it was announced Friday that the administration would withdraw objections to the Europeans' plan to provide economic incentives.

Mr. Clinton's aides bitterly maintain that the administration of Mr. Bush's father did little to help the incoming Clinton team at the end of 1992, after a hard-fought campaign.

The chancellor has maintained that administration represents a small fraction of costs, while the mayor has often spoken of a bloated bureaucracy at the board's headquarters that would have to be cut before the board could expect further spending increases.

He has responded that as a military man he voted for candidates that were strong on defense and maintained that the Bush administration's response to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed his mind about the president's capabilities.

Mr. Kerry maintained that the Bush administration had been slow to secure nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, saying that 600 tons of material would take another 13 years to secure.

The Giuliani administration maintained that the developer had properly bought development rights from other property owners on the block and built a public plaza in return for the right to build the tower 20percentt higher than statutes allow.

The Daniels administration maintained that the plant would create jobs in an economically depressed part of the state and offer environmental benefits through an in-state energy source.

The boundary between Papua and Kaiser Wilhelmsland had been broadly established by a joint British-German expedition in 1909, but the interior had not been mapped and the German colonial administration maintained that the boundary was imprecise.