These errors are particularly harmful because regulators often require firms weighing applications for credit to refer to credit bureaus.
It is also weighing applications from community groups that want federal grants to serve as insurance counselors, or "navigators," who help people understand their coverage options.
Those seniors at Lakewood who were affected (nearly a quarter of the class) say they have drawn little comfort from suggestions that students who retake the SAT's often improve their performance, or from the colleges' assurances that they will consider such unusual circumstances when weighing applications.
A senior state official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said that Mr. Murphy, the former director of the health facility planning division, could face dismissal based on allegations that he did not fully recuse himself from weighing applications submitted by his wife's consulting firm, Cicero, Shapiro, Velazquez & Cicero in White Plains.
Some ethicists and legal scholars hope to create better frameworks for answering these questions, perhaps through the creation of "biohistorical review boards" that could analyze requests for exhumations and other analyses of the dead, much like the review boards that now weigh applications for studies involving living human subjects.
The court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which was established under the 1978 law, weighs F.B.I. applications for wiretaps and other searches of people suspected of espionage or of terrorism.
MORTGAGE lenders do not figure in a household's likely commuting costs when weighing loan applications, but a recent study suggests that borrowers of moderate means would be smart to calculate these costs themselves before buying.
The FAA, the board said, had been under pressure to approve the SpaceShipTwo flight within its 120-day period for weighing such applications and had lacked communication with Scaled's staff.
Michigan says it has enough admissions officers to do away with the point system and still weigh each application fairly.
The Wetumpka Tea Party, from Alabama, sponsored training for a get-out-the-vote initiative dedicated to the "defeat of President Barack Obama" while the I.R.S. was weighing its application.
