11.   --Allow tax-free withdrawals from Individual Retirement Accounts for home buying, higher education and health-care costs.

12.   But no government assurances allowing the withdrawal had been given by Thursday night.

13.   Prudent banking practice dictates that the collecting bank allow withdrawals against cheques only after the paying bank has cleared it as good for payment.

14.   Some banks are allowing withdrawals only in rubles, even from accounts established in U.S. dollars.

15.   That is, an open-ended mandate with six-month reviews allowing progressive withdrawal as certain conditions are fulfilled.

16.   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to allow a withdrawal unless the security provisions in the accord signed by his Labor predecessor Shimon Peres are beefed up.

17.   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to allow a withdrawal unless the security provisions in the accord signed by his Labor predecessors are beefed up.

18.   But the court in that case took pains to stipulate it was not condoning euthanasia, simply allowing withdrawal of extraordinary life support means.

19.   Mack moved to allow the withdrawal, but no one seconded the motion, and the motion to deny was put forward.