11.   But the same panel did not approve Depocyt, an anti-cancer agent, for use in patients with neoplastic meningitis arising from solid tumors.

12.   Even if the panel approves Foster, Senate aides say there is little chance the full Senate would confirm him.

13.   Hatch, R-Utah, said at a hearing he hopes the panel will approve the nomination Wednesday and pass it quickly to the full Senate.

14.   He also said several ethics panels had approved the work, but declined to name the ethicists involved.

15.   Health maintenance organizations would suffer less severe pay cuts than proposed by President Bill Clinton under the bill the House panel approved.

16.   House panels have approved a measure that would allow the exports without decoding keys, as U.S. companies want.

17.   If the panel approves the Whitman nomination, it then goes to the full Senate for final confirmation.

18.   In preliminary votes last week, the panel tentatively approved costly and disruptive drawdowns of the pools behind four Snake River dams and one Columbia River dam.

19.   In July, a five-judge appeals panel approved the law, upholding an earlier lower-court decision.

20.   Instead, the panel approved a measure that leaves it up to the president to decide what encryption strength can be exported.