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WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 — The Bush administration on Tuesday will propose a significant expansion of the authority of the federal drug and consumer product safety agencies to inspect and certify imports, White House and other administration officials said Monday.

General Motors, the biggest of the troubled car companies, is expected to propose a significant shrinking of its North American operations, including shutting more factories and streamlining its sprawling brand lineup, according to people with knowledge of G.M.'s deliberations.

Students will be admitted to Research Track only if they have a demonstrated capability for substantial independent research, and propose a significant and well-formulated project at the time of application.

HENDRIK E. SADI Yonkers, March 20 , 2013To the Editor: I would propose a significant addition to both the apportionment of blame and the quantifying of costs for the tragic war in Iraq.

In this paper, we propose a significant extension to the methodology which reduces the hardware cost of the global controller and memory address generators by avoiding these costly operations.

It seems that it can adopt liberal or nationalist rhetoric with equal ease to push its message of strength and power.Thus, Mr Medvedev went out of his way to pay respect to the constitution, only to propose a significant change: to extend the presidential term from four to six years, and the parliament's from four to five years.

A13 EDUCATION B9 Bush's Proposal for Schools President Bush proposed a significant increase in the federal role in public education, offering an ambitious plan that would require states to test all their students in the third through eighth grades and publicly report on their progress.

Mr. Bush proposes a significant increase in spending for the Pentagon.

The Postal Service has proposed a significant increase in magazine mailing rates.

Democratic lawmakers, with some courage, proposed a significant property tax increase to spare the county deep cutbacks in services.

The left-leaning IPPR proposes a significant, although by no means huge, increase in the allowance for those who have 'made five years of contributions.