41.   Last week, the government of Thailand granted formal approval to Ford Motor Co. and Mazda Motor Corp. for a joint venture to build pickup trucks.

42.   Lim said that the agreement could receive formal approval from the IMF this week with the money available almost immediately after that.

43.   Lawmakers also have yet to give formal approval to the plan to continue regulating cable prices for another three years.

44.   Mining analysts said they expect the government to give formal approval by June.

45.   Moreover, the crew received formal approval and authorization for the two stopovers on the two-day training mission, investigators found.

46.   No record of the formal approval or disapproval of these plans by Eisenhower or the Dulles brothers has been made public.

47.   Normally, the final session would have culminated in a formal approval of the Charter by acclamation.

48.   Once that is resolved, the settlement will need formal approval from a federal court judge in Chicago.

49.   Phoenix declined to comment on its plans, saying it did not want to speak before it received formal approval from Taipei.

50.   Recent presidents, including Clinton, have asserted the authority to send troops into combat zones without formal approval from Congress.