1.   Deutch should not have difficulty winning Senate approval because he won quick and easy Senate approval last year for his current post.

2.   Franklin D. Roosevelt had difficulty winning approval of a southerner, Sen. Hugo Black, who as a young man had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

3.   The airline may face difficulty winning approval for the flights.

4.   Writers and scholars now have less difficulty winning approval of their work from clerical censors, they said.