1.   At least one tour operator filed for bankruptcy, and the others sought and received waivers to let them fly lower.

2.   Best Buy last week said it received a waiver for a bank loan whose terms it had violated.

3.   Bolivia and Peru also received waivers last year, but this year they got a clean bill of health.

4.   A dozen states have already received federal waivers to set time limits.

5.   A State Department spokesman said that Mrs. Mandela had received waivers from the U.S. Embassy in South Africa in the past.

6.   All the split-session schools must receive state waivers to give fewer than five and one half hours of instruction, the minimum required by education law.

7.   Clinton supports allowing states to test welfare recipients for drug use, he said, and five states have received waivers from Washington to permit sanctions for drug use.

8.   Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey and South Carolina have received federal waivers to give welfare-to-work families an extra year on Medicaid.

9.   Dupri had received waivers from jury service in the past and wrongly assumed Edwards would grant a waiver for the rest of the week, Tyler said.

10.   Everett did not name the individuals who received waivers.