"The bottom line is that we don't have agreement with the Iranians on the stockpile issue," said Marie Harf, a State Department spokeswoman.
Those objections, in particular the stockpile issue, have no solid technical basis, says the panel, which was led by Dr. John P. Holdren, a physicist who is chairman of the program in science, technology and public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's foreign minister, said in September that negotiators had found "a satisfactory way" to deal with the stockpile issue.
President Clinton changed the subject from depositions to detonations today, visiting the Los Alamos National Laboratory to pay tribute to the custodians of the nation's nuclear stockpile and issuing a plea to the Senate to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
Although not every potential disaster could be averted, such studies provide rationale for spending money on the most pressing issues: stockpiling flu vaccines, shoring up rotting infrastructure, and, yes, preparing for higher sea levels.
If he does, and a winning manager is the result, then everything else fades away - all the supporter disaffection, all the issues about stockpiling players, all of it.
Once again, this is an issue of stockpiling.
BIRAJ PATNIAK, a lawyer who advises India's Supreme Court on food issues, on stockpiles of grain going to waste because of mismanagement of food aid programs.
There also issues surrounding the stockpiling of players at Premier League clubs.
The department's new rules on reporting stockpiles of toxic chemicals, issued last week, have certainly made the industry happy.
