61.   Insurers must obtain state approval to withdraw, which can take several years.

62.   Inventories are high because the company needs to have product ready to ship as soon as approval is obtained from the Food and Drug Administration, he says.

63.   It must also obtain congressional approval for the extended American presence.

64.   It would be able to reduce spending and increase taxation without obtaining congressional approval.

65.   It must first, however, obtain judicial approval to disclose grand jury informaiton in the report.

66.   It would end the ability of community activists to block banks with bad community-lending records from obtaining regulatory approval for mergers, acquisitions and other transactions.

67.   Kelleher was elected into the Hall of Fame in the Contributor category for his efforts obtaining American approval for Open tennis after a yearlong campaign.

68.   Last year, he mounted a similar effort to obtain approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

69.   Kansas City Southern officials warned then that they would make few comments while trying to obtain approval of the deal from various regulators and shareholders.

70.   Lawyers at the Justice Department believed that the committees were delving too deeply into general business before the companies had obtained approval to merge.