Such a bankruptcy for Chrysler would test the administration's theory that a major carmaker could undergo a "quick rinse" in court, shedding unwanted liabilities, and emerge as a smaller but healthier company.
GM's position is more complicated and will prove a test for the new administration and Congress.
One test of the Obama administration's economic philosophy is whether it is as eager to take advantage of that opening as some of the others now before it.
In the case of the test ban treaty, the administration has demonstrated little of either.
The Food and Drug Administration does not test the ingredients or safety of all herbal products and nutritional supplements before they appear in stores, as it does with prescription drugs.
According to Marc Schildkraut, an antitrust lawyer at Howery LLP, Justice Department lawyers in the previous administration used a test that weighed whether the anticompetitive effects of behavior disproportionately outweighed any good that such behavior might bring consumers.
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The nuclear test ban, which the Clinton administration wants the Senate to ratify, is to be verified by such an "impartial" internationally staffed organization.
At the summit, the United States will sign accords on enhanced verification procedures sought by the Reagan Administration for the Threshold Test Ban Treaty and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty of the 1970s as prerequisites to ratification by the U.S. Congress.
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The Federal Aviation Administration has prohibited commercial, test and delivery flights of U.S.-registered 787s since twin lithium-ion battery incidents on Japan Airlines Co.
"It is the rule at the moment but we are the first Premier League club to have gone into administration so let's just test the rule, " he added.
Cheating is rare on expensive tests such as the SATs, ACTs, APs and NAEP because test-givers and their contractors spend what it takes to have their sessions proctored, their test booklets kept secure before and after their administration, and the scoring done by individuals or machines in distant locations that are unaffected by the results of that scoring.
The Obama administration has had plenty of time to test its diplomatic theories.
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The Administration also proposes to allow States to test strategies to overcome financial deterrents to forming safe and stable two-parent households and marriage in federal programs.
The New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy, widely credited as an important factor in the citywide drop in crime during the Bloomberg administration, will face its biggest constitutional test in a federal trial beginning Monday.
If Mr Arias's American-backed mission to mediate succeeds, Barack Obama's administration may yet emerge from its first big test in Latin America with its prestige enhanced.
Boeing did receive one spot of good news this week: The Federal Aviation Administration gave the company the OK to fly test flights of the Dreamliner in order to gather more data on the battery problems.
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Instead, he said, increased economic sanctions against North Korea are likely the only path the Obama administration can pursue in response to any rocket test by Pyongyang, which would be in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions.
The Bush administration does not support the treaty, but the test moratorium and too many other Clinton-era nuclear weapon policies remain in effect, nonetheless.
Boeing is still waiting for approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on potential fixes to begin test-flying the 787, but it continues to receive orders for the Dreamliner, with Air Berlin announcing an order for 15 units on Tuesday.
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Earlier this week, the Bush administration moved to defuse some of the criticism by relaxing test requirements for students with limited knowledge of English.
Washington (CNN) -- After three weeks on the ground, Boeing's 787 Dreamliner soon will return to the skies -- but only so engineers can test the plane's troubled electrical and battery systems, the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday.
It would not start with the proposed test of the MIRACL laser against the third Miniature Sensor Technology Integration (MSTI-3) satellite. (For that matter, these assets were used in an inconclusive low-power laser test last April.) And it assuredly would not stop if the Clinton Administration chooses not to conduct the high-power experiment now being proposed by the Army.
The Clinton administration has announced its intention to launch a campaign to resuscitate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) rejected last October by a majority of the Senate.
More than 13, 000 patients have been enrolled in one study to test the drug's safety and efficacy for an application with the Food and Drug Administration.
Instead, the Administration would rely on the United Nations, which planned to send in experts to test soil and take samples from victims.
President Bush's European trip promises to be a major test of his powers of persuasion as he tries to calm European and Russian skepticism about his administration's national security and environmental policies.
At the time scientists inside and outside the EPA unanimously agreed that the test posed negligible risk. (I wrote the analysis submitted by the Food and Drug Administration.) No new genetic material had been added--only a single gene whose function was well known had been removed--and the organism was obviously harmless.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration agrees, of course, which is why it recently launched the first real-world test of vehicle-to-vehicle communication near Ann Arbor, Mich.
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The stress test results that will be released by regulators and the Treasury today, I also think, and the administration believes, is an important step on the road to financial stability.
Within the next few weeks, the Federal Aviation Administration will issue its regulations surrounding the "experimental permits" that private spacecraft owners will use to test their rockets.
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