1.   The commission granted temporary exemptions.

2.   Because the low-power radio plan is already law, Congress is expected to move quickly to head it off before the commission grants any licenses.

3.   But the commission can grant amnesty only for specific acts and crimes.

4.   By loosening the rule for large cities, the commission would in effect grant a blanket waiver without the need to prove the case.

5.   In the past, the commission has seldom granted stays of such serious penalties.

6.   Only private schools can have policies of limiting admissions to one sex or the other, the law says, unless the commission grants an exemption.

7.   The commission did grant Disney seven other waivers for separate combinations of media properties in single markets.

8.   The commission regularly grants such waivers depending on the number of media outlets in a market and if common ownership is determined to be in the public interest.

9.   The commission must grant the pardon if all is confessed and the men are found to have had a genuinely political motive for their actions.

10.   The commission has issued a request for bids for the lucrative contract, even though the commission granted GTECH a five-year extension last year.