1.   Cherno Njie, who oversees the tax credit program, said the agency often awards credits to developers with less than perfect applications.

2.   Each company withdrew its application after an independent FCC-appointed panel recommended that the agency not award such a license to any of the three.

3.   Guy F. Tozzoli, former head of the world trade department for the Port Authority, said the agency had awarded DiBono the work through competitive bidding.

4.   In a December application at the SEC, Citicorp and Citibank sought an exemption that the agency has previously awarded to Credit Suisse and others.

5.   It allows school districts to bypass laws requiring that all municipal agencies award contracts to the lowest bidder.

6.   Massachusetts agencies award billions of dollars worth of contracts a year, so there is much at stake in the spat over the Burma law.

7.   The agency awards it to manufacturers of drugs for small populations of patients who need new treatments.

8.   This is the third contract the agency has awarded this year and the second this week.

9.   FAA spokesman William Shumann said flight delays at LaGuardia dropped after the agency in February awarded takeoff and landing slots by lottery, reducing the number of flights.

10.   Rome became the first Italian municipality to secure a top rating when the European credit rating agency, IBCA, awarded it triple-A in October.