31.   Wolfe said the figures showed the margin of safety that the FDA added to drug approval.

32.   With word of government drug approvals expected in the next two quarters, analysts say these stocks could recover from slumps of the past few months.

33.   Public health officials credit ACT UP with creating political pressure that prompted increased research funding and faster drug approval.

34.   Drug approval usually takes years in Japan, but New York-based Pfizer won permission in January to market Viagra here just six months after it applied.

35.   Drug approval in Japan often takes years.

36.   He reiterated his position that he was just a medical doctor without power to set policy on drug approval.

37.   Health Minister Allan Rock acknowledged the concerns about slow drug approvals when he attended the recent World AIDS Conference in Geneva.

38.   In other areas, such as drug approval, telecommunications and trucking, Japan barely budged, not even addressing many of the issues, the officials said.

39.   The drug approval was the second in two days for Burroughs Wellcome, a North Carolina pharmaceutical giant.

40.   The FDA has long walked a tightrope between critics of multiple-year delays of drug approvals and consumer advocates who blast it as not cautious enough.