In September 1990, the landmarks commission again proposed designating the building, but the estate of Mr. Stark, who died in 1988, fought it tooth and nail, even though the building has been empty for more than a decade.

Among the ports they propose designating as a community port is port 80, the standard port for the hypertext transport protocol (HTTP), the transport mechanism used to support the World Wide Web.

In January 1983, after improvements to U.S. 19-A had made it similar to an interstate highway, the state proposed designating U.S. 19-A as U.S. 19 Bypass.

To this end, while endorsing Mr. Brahimi's efforts to put together a transitional Iraqi government, Mr. Kerry also proposes designating an international high commissioner for Iraq whose office would be outside the barely functional, patronage-driven U.N. personnel system.

To its credit, the Bush administration proposed designating an additional $300 million for food to be bought from local or regional sources this year, but Congress rejected the proposal.

"I thought it was fun, fanciful, a lively way to draw attention to the industry," said State Senator Carole Migden, Democrat of San Francisco, who months ago proposed designating zinfandel the official wine of California.

District of Columbia officials proposed designating the route Interstate 66N, a move opposed by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.

PAGE A3 U.S. May Protect Polar Bears The Interior Department proposed designating polar bears as a threatened species.

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service, which in December proposed designating polar bears around the Arctic as a threatened species because of climate change and the ice retreat, is halfway through a yearlong assessment of that question.

In his 1955 report Thoughts on Linguistic States, B. R. Ambedkar, then chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constitution, proposed designating the city of Hyderabad as the second capital of India because of its amenities and strategic central location.