11. Amgen has filed for European regulatory approval of Aranesp for use by cancer patients. 12. Amgen Inc., a biotechnology giant, received regulatory approval to use its blood growth product Neupogen as a means to replace bone marrow transplants in cancer patients. 13. Analysts expect ITT to quickly separate its hotel and casino, telephone directory and technical school businesses if it gets court and regulatory approvals. 14. Analysts speculate that Chevron or Texaco will have to give up some of their gas stations to get regulatory approval. 15. Analysts agreed, saying regulatory approval should be easy to win because both utilities are in Pennsylvania. 16. Analysts attributed the decline to concern revenue will decline because of falling international phone rates and delays in gaining regulatory approval to charge higher local rates. 17. Analysts and investment bankers also point out that, at least in Britain, the companies could get regulatory approval because they operate different businesses. 18. And executives of both firms were fast out of the gates at the more mundane task of lining up regulatory approvals. 19. Analysts speculated that GTE could be required to shed some of its long-distance customers in the east as a condition for regulatory approval. 20. Analysts said regulatory approval usually takes about six months. |
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