There is no good time for N.C.A.A. investigators, lawyers and reporters to be asking about potential improprieties in a basketball program.

Whatever the arguments about potential improprieties, such giving demonstrates how affluent candidates benefit from their bankrolls.

This is a potential impropriety.

Another area of potential impropriety, also difficult to document, is who pays the way for these student-athletes.

The second problem was the potential impropriety of the crinoline.

Mr. Dopp said his office was reviewing the claim of potential financial improprieties and had referred the complaint about the children to city officials.

This visit revealed potential financial impropriety as the Prior would not produce the priory's accounts.

But that flexibility also opens the door for potential improprieties, said a Hartford lawyer who specializes in construction practices.

It was not an issue of the auditors having to do more tests because they found potential improprieties or irregularities.

Mr. Conway said an internal analysis done by Cray "convinced us that there were some potential improprieties that looked as if they constituted dumping."