The Senate decisively approved legislation relaxing nearly 40 years of sanctions on the sale of food to Cuba.
The House today decisively approved legislation that grants more than 70 African and Caribbean countries broad new trading privileges by expanding duty-free access to American markets.
Although the president had not budged on his position, in the November election California voters decisively approved Proposition 71, the Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, a $3 billion bond measure to fund stem-cell research.
A5 Venezuela Ousts Labor Leaders Voters have decisively approved a referendum that ousts the leaders of the country's labor unions, who are sympathetic to opposition parties, and paves the way for creating a single new government-dominated workers' federation.
Voters in Venezuela have decisively approved a referendum that ousts the leaders of the country's labor unions, who are sympathetic to opposition parties, and paves the way for creating a single new government-dominated workers' federation.
When the Senate reassembles next week it should move quickly and decisively to approve the reform bill and send it to the White House for Mr. Bush to sign into law.
Under the euro zone's tortuous procedures, however, all 17 European Union countries that use the euro must approve the agreement, a process that has revealed ever more fissures, layers of decision-making and political complexity that add up to a worrisome inability to react quickly and decisively to upheaval in fast-moving financial markets.
Likewise, Swiss membership of the United Nations, which was decisively turned down in 1986, was approved in 2002 with a small majority.
RESIDENTS of the Sachem school district, who decisively voted down double-digit tax increases in 2004 and 2005, approved a $33.1 million bond issue on Tuesday for repairs, renovations and upgrades in the district's 18 schools — but barely.
The Senate approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation's bankruptcy laws today, decisively passing a measure that would make it harder for people to seek legal protection from payment of their debts.
