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From 2007 to 2010, prosecutors said, Ms. Sykes helped process and approve about 1,500 fraudulent food stamp benefit cases worth about $8 million.

It's important to note that many people who don't approve (about 17 percent, according to a recent Kaiser Foundation poll) feel the Affordable Care Act doesn't go far enough in reforming the way we pay for health care.

BENJAMIN WEISER MADOFF BILL Irving H. Picard, below, the trustee who is liquidating Bernard L. Madoff's investment business, and his law firm asked a federal bankruptcy judge to approve about $45 million in fees for four months' work, a number that would bring their total fees in the case to $224 million.

According to Biz2Credit's latest survey, small banks approve about half (49%, to be exact) of the financing requests they receive.

The council is also slated to approve about $403,000 worth of Hewlett-Packard desktop computers from Cerritos-based Golden Star Technology GST Incnc.

Officials in Belgrade, the Yugoslav and Serbian capital, hope the conference will approve about $1.2 billion in aid, roughly half from the United States.

His team has already approved "about 16,000 claims" of the 52,000 filed, he said, and authorized more than $175 million.

And that rate is slow; for much of the past decade, Houston approved about ten times more new housing each year than San Jose.

The Senate is close to approving about $51 billion for military operations in Iraq next year, a figure included in all of the plans worked out by the budget office.

The agency ordinarily approves about 100 bus companies a month.

The board approved about five of these for consideration.