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In effect, Mr. Smith was willing to consider approving a few thousand STEM visas only as long as the net effect on immigration was zero, or less than zero.

What was supposed to be a benign and routine meeting of the committee -- approving a few ambassadors and passing a bill expanding clean water to poor communities around the world -- turned into heated discussion about war and peace and whether the Congress should begin to draft its own AUMF for a war that has been ongoing since August 8.

It was approved a few days later.

The ministry has approved a few dozen purchases, and hundreds more are still waiting, operators in India say.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a few export terminals in 2013, and has 13 proposals currently pending, with total export capacity exceeding 18 billion cubic feet of gas per day.

On June 1, Ms. Heath submitted an application for a $1,500-a-month one-bedroom in Mott Haven in the South Bronx, which was approved a few days later.

NEW DELHI After its monsoon session collapsed without a single law being passed, India's Parliament managed to approve a few landmark bills in its just-concluded winter session, but not without wasting most of its time.

"The spirit of this constitution will provide an opportunity for the country to move on the path of democracy," said Interior Minister Ahmed Ali Jalali after the draft was put before the interim cabinet and approved a few weeks ago.

Vigo approved a few cuts suggested by Nounez, but he was too ill to protest the gutting of the film by its distributor and died just days after it left Parisian theaters.

Personal connections do play a role, of course — Mayer's payout will be greater because of additional options she collected after she went to work at Yahoo, and she'll only be able to cash in her options and restricted stock all at once because of a change that the board approved a few months ago.

Former Dale Farm resident Kathleen McCarthy, who campaigned relentlessly for a peaceful settlement to avoid the council's costly £11m eviction said: "If only they could have approved a few sites like this last year, then there would have been no need to put us out of our homes and on to the roadside.