Many administrative institutions possess qualifications which render them just as capable of giving conclusive judgments on legal issues as are the inferior courts.

She said, her voice strained with the effort of trying to force understanding, "I will submit to you all the information necessary to form a conclusive judgment."

Opening reviews were mixed, but conclusive judgments about the box-office returns will not be reached for several weeks, after the film runs its course and opens overseas.

The records of the Later Three Kingdoms period, however, are too sparse to permit any conclusive judgment.

"That would seem to be a conclusive judgment in my view," Mr. Mitchell said.

Calling on the individual man or woman on the street to make conclusive judgments is beneath journalistic dignity.

Private business leaders reacted skepticallly, and many said the Government's larger economic plan was too vague to permit a conclusive judgment.

But there were so many conflicting reports about his fate that senior intelligence officials said they could not make any conclusive judgments about whether he is still alive.

The problem can be traced to the liability cases that made this report necessary, in which limitations on expert testimony made conclusive judgments almost impossible.

Mr. Shahriar conceded that he had not seen a live demonstration of the device and thus could not offer a conclusive judgment.