Parents will only have to tap a big "Approve" button to confirm the request (or deny it, if the request is inappropriate for some reason).
But purchases appear to be escalating, with some of the biggest deals approved in 2015.
Officials vetted the list (foreigners, journalists and outspoken dissidents were among those barred), but it was, in effect, the biggest officially approved gathering of political liberals since Tiananmen days.What is more, China's official news agency, Xinhua, reported later in the day that top officials were among those who had turned out to bow before the body and shake hands with the family.
Deciding between marginal increases or decreases in expenditures across different functions, all of them linked to specified objectives, is an improvement over buying aircraft simply because it is the turn of the air force to get a big project approved by the government.
Directors of at least one big company have approved a big stock option plan.
If a bank is too big to fail, it's too big to approve.
Who would congressmen, having approved big budgets and passed big programs, choose as the next president if the issue ended up in the House?
Shareholders of Reliance Industries, India's biggest nongovernment company, approved the settlement of an ownership dispute reached in June by the two sons of the group's founder.
There is a real prospect that the stimulus package announced last week – the biggest Japan has approved since the Lehman Brothers shock – will have an immediate impact.
On Thursday, the board of Wikimedia, the biggest wiki publisher, approved the creation of a travel guide after an extended online comment period that found support for the idea.
His latest blockbuster, "Pearl Harbor," directed by his frequent collaborator Michael Bay, opens on Memorial Day weekend and has already set another record: as the movie with the biggest budget ever approved by a studio in advance, $135 million.
