So far the killings indicate no administrative lapse - but do dramatize the need for new strategies that Mr. Brown is only too willing to pursue.

Deputy Inspector Joseph Wodarski: The comanding officer of Midtown South who had been put in charge of the detail, Inspector Wodarski allowed "certain basic administrative lapses" to occur.

Such actions demonstrate a welcome new willingness to tackle the board's own administrative lapses.

Various administrative lapses were singled out for blame, but Mr. Scharaga's wife, Mildred, knew immediately and exactly what the underlying problem was.

Judge Stephen Weiss has now agreed, swayed more by the district's educational failings than by its administrative lapses.

The social worker contends he was ousted for whistle-blowing: he had challenged the Bellevue forensic psychiatry staff by pointing out administrative lapses in the prison ward.

Mr. Sielaff's critics, pointing to some glaring administrative lapses that have marred his first year in office, worry that he may not be the person to trust with new programs that would place more jail inmates in the community.

However, the question hour has been used to bring out several administrative lapses.

Over the last 17 years, Dr. Crew's predecessors suspended board members at various times for administrative lapses and infighting that had stymied efforts to name superintendents.

Commandant Botes said one crew member of the liner Oceanos remained unnaccounted for, but he said he thought the discrepancy might be a result of an outdated manifest or another administrative lapse.