51.  Depending on the time period needed to gain patent approval, the law will give drug companies up to three years of extra protection for their products.

52.  Dr. Mark Rosenberg, director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, is not sure what will happen if the cut in funding gains final approval.

53.  Enthoven predicted that something close to this plan will gain eventual approval in Congress.

54.  Ergo does plan to test its drug with metformin, a new diabetic drug that recently gained FDA approval.

55.  Even if Time Warner mollifies its various partners, it must gain approval for the deal in Washington.

56.  Exit polls suggested that an agreement to end years of bloodshed between Protestants and Catholics gained overwhelming approval.

57.  Even if the proposed legislation fails to gain approval, it still gets the intended fund-raising job done.

58.  Eventually, perhaps, he might gain approval from the NBA Players Association.

59.  For example, Pacificorp has gained the approval of the British government.

60.  For Levin, the past year has been consumed by gaining government approval for the Turner deal.