11.   It was not clear late Sunday night whether the legislature could approve the measure by midnight.

12.   New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani plans to circumvent the limit by getting the state legislature to approve a separate borrowing authority called the Infrastructure Finance Authority.

13.   Now that the legislature has approved the law, it will be up to others to contain the damage.

14.   One is that the state legislature must approve the package this spring.

15.   Once the seven state legislatures have approved the plan, the Department of the Interior will allow exchanges of Colorado River water between lower-basin states.

16.   State legislatures approve state mottoes, of course, and some are more up to the task than others.

17.   The Chinese legislature barely approved the construction of the dam, Lammers said.

18.   The German government needs the legislature to approve changes to the Bundesbank statutes, setting up a possible showdown with the central bank.

19.   The legislature has since approved the measure, which was signed into law by Gov. Pedro Rossello.

20.   The legislature approved the measure last year.