The sequencing of the potato genome was expected to speed efforts to develop new varieties.
He said he hoped the payment would speed efforts to find Mr. Hussein, the State Department said.
But Mr. Le Blay said the auction could speed efforts toward the creation of a foundation.
One example he cited was the need to speed efforts to make it easier for different intelligence and law-enforcement agencies to exchange information through their computer systems.
He vowed to speed efforts to privatize the military's energy suppliers, a change that could have benefited Enron by allowing it to win government contracts.
Amazon, one of the leaders in electronic retailing, has stepped up its antiunion activities the last week after two unions and an independent organizing group announced plans to speed efforts to unionize Amazon during the holiday e-shopping rush.
But the commission said France's budget stability program was not ambitious enough, and it called on the country to speed efforts to balance its budget by 2004 at the latest.
In the last fiscal year, the national supply of push packs -- each of which provides enough for two million people -- rose from 8to1212. Some $600 million will go to the Pentagon, of which about $420 million will be used to speed efforts to develop better devices and systems to detect and identify the release of dangerous germs in the atmosphere or water.
But Versailles's officials say the destruction caused by the two fierce windstorms that roared across Europe over the Christmas holidays may actually turn out to be a good thing for the park, speeding efforts to restore it to its finest days under the extravagant Louis XIV.
An analysis of the mouse genome by an international consortium of scientists, a landmark event in biology, shows it is so similar to that of people that it should speed efforts to understand the human genome and the genetic roots of disease.
