71.   And the lawmaker said he wrote and dated the check only after Connell told him the loan was being approved.

72.   At their final environmental panel meeting, they also hit out at the two-day rush to approve the loan by tomorrow.

73.   Bank officials have also been found guilty of taking kickbacks for approving loans.

74.   Banks have lost money financing golf courses, hotels and other speculative investments, or through graft by managers who took bribes to approve fraudulent loans.

75.   Banks, for example, have put a hold on approving new loans to customers in case the new budget introduces new banking guidelines.

76.   Besides Tansil, five top Bapindo executives were sentenced to prison for four to nine years for approving the loan in violation of bank rules.

77.   But a representative said the fund wanted to see action on fiscal measures and structural reforms before it would approve the loan.

78.   But he denied that the advisers approved major loans by the credit union or had a role in forming policy.

79.   Camdessus is expected to announce whether he approves the loan after meeting Tuesday with President Geidar Aliyev.

80.   During the economic decline, financial institutions should be extremely careful to approve new loans.