But while the celebrations for the Adulam victory were at their height, another government planning committee, this time in the northern part of Israel, approved the request of IEI's sister corporation, Afek Oil & Gas, for exploratory drilling in the Golan Heights.
In September 1992 it was reported that 'the CACM negotiators approved the request of the Local Tobacco Industry to reduce from 10%to5%5% the taxes on cigarette paper, filter tipping, plugwrap, casings and flavours'[ 27].
A further document indicates that this 55% level had been agreed by 1996: 'The Central American Ministers of Economy... approved the request of BAT companies to reduce the tariff on [leaf] tobaccos imported from outside the CACM while maintaining the 55% external tariff for cigarettes'[ 47].
Walton declined to approve the request of Clemens's lawyers, however, for notes regarding interviews with the former major leaguer Jose Canseco.
The judge, Ricardo M. Urbina of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, ordered the Food and Drug Administration to immediately approve the request of Mylan Laboratories Inc. to sell a generic version of the drug, buspirone, sold under the trade name BuSpar.
In approving the request of Maryland's superintendent of schools, Nancy S. Grasmick, a longtime advocate of the school standards movement, the state board took the most drastic remedy provided under No Child Left Behind, one reserved for schools that have failed to show sufficient progress for at least five years.
At least, Andrus knew, his immediate successors were not likely to approve the request of then-California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. Indeed, the new Interior secretary, James G. Watt, protested and threatened to cancel the directive.
Airline personnel approved the request ahead of time, but apparently had not realized just how big Charlotte was.
Mr. Obama has requested $230 million for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, and the appropriations committees in both houses of Congress have approved the request as part of a spending bill for 2017.
In taking the discount rate action, the Federal Reserve Board approved the request submitted by the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
The city's Department of Design and Construction has now approved the request, and James Rossberg, director of the civil engineering society's Structural Engineering Institute, said he hoped the team would be able to visit the site this week.
