After what officials call an exhaustive investigation that spanned the world, the city has removed more names from the official tally.

"I wouldn't call it an investigation," he told me in a telephone conversation.

He said he did not believe the White House would take any further action and declined to call the review an investigation.

Why is Mrs. Chamorro so reluctant to call a full investigation?

The New York Times called the play a "pointed investigation of the politics of history."

When an expert is asked to look at a computer it is called an "investigation".

Suspicious of a cover-up, Congress called an immediate investigation.

He also said he had called an investigation into the cash bonuses given to officials in the final days of the Bush Administration.

Mr. Alito would not comment on any aspect of what he called "an ongoing criminal investigation."

So far, in what is called an ongoing investigation, two street vendors from previous festivals have been indicted on perjury charges.