The Order also requires that agencies establish and conduct a program for systematic declassification review, based on the new and narrower criteria.

Only the closest reader would see that each agency was basing its assessment in large measure on evidence the other considered suspect.

One is that agencies based in other cities area scrambling to open or reopen offices in San Francisco.

Alltel's creative agency of record s Campbell-Ewald, based in Detroit.

The disease-control agency based its conclusion in part on comparisons of sequencing of the 7 cases and 32 unrelated ones in southern Florida.

General Electric officials say that the company's efforts are intended to ensure that the agency bases its decision on sound science.

Some agencies physically base their staff in the agency office, clearly emphasizing where loyalty lies.

The agency also expressed some concern about the content of the videos, but based its ruling on the lack of disclosure.

Supporters of the provision in the House bill say it is intended to make sure the agency bases its decisions on the most up-to-date science.

Legally, the board was constrained to vote only whether the lower agency had based its decision on sufficient evidence.