A bureau report earlier this month said 122 equal-opportunity complaints were unresolved.

"But even today's bureau report falls short - far short - of the number of people who live in New York City."

"It is extremely rare," a bureau report says, for them "to have guaranteed employment that exceeds three to six months."

Career Education's disclosure of the bureau report, when it did come, was positively breezy.

But the current bureau report also notes that the only two complaints received since 1995 came this year.

Still, a bureau report examined the number of jobs that people born in the years 1957 to 1964 held from age 18 to age 36.

The bureau report did not say how long ago the fingerprints were left on the documents or in what sequence, things beyond the scope of fingerprint technology.

But he said that after the bureau report, the foundation had acquired the donated services of a certified public accountant and woul comply with all requirements.

But an earlier bureau report on blacks, based on figures from 1987, found that 30 percent of the black families in the United States were poor.

Mr. Exon said he did not think the new bureau report would produce "a smoking gun."