81.   A court Monday approved an application by U.S. authorities for the extradition of an American wanted for credit card fraud amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

82.   Another company, Globe Telecom Inc., has yet to have its application approved by the NTC.

83.   Applications were approved for eight other Cubans.

84.   Arthur said a special committee, which was set up in part to look at how Kmart would affect the local economy, approved the application.

85.   Based on the go-ahead by the State Fisheries and State DID, Sulaiman said he approved the applications by Ivory Heights.

86.   Both companies were filing for public listings and Xin approved their applications and forwarded them to the national regulatory body, the China Securities Regulatory Committee.

87.   But the Urban Services Department has not yet formally approved the application.

88.   But they skirted the real issue before approving the application.

89.   Election commission head Alexander Veshnyakov said on NTV television that he did not expect all the applications to be approved, but did not elaborate.

90.   Environment Secretary Victor Ramos said his agency is close to approving nine applications for new mining projects.