The S.E.C. and I.B.M. could try to go over Judge Leon's head by seeking a writ of mandamus from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit directing him to approve the settlement.
Interviews in the complaint with 63 confidential witnesses turned up such gems as Fremont Investment & Loan, which had been based in California, approving loans for pizza delivery men with reported monthly incomes of $6,000, and management at Long Beach Mortgage, also in California, directing underwriters to "approve, approve, approve".
Antibody-drug conjugate brentuximab vedotin (BV) directed to CD30 has been approved for treatment of relapsed HL as an objective antitumor response with a well-tolerated toxicity (Younes et al., 2010).
Obama has directed the bureau to approve enough renewable-energy projects to power four million homes by 2020.
PUBLIC LANDS In 2005, Congress directed the Interior Department to approve enough wind, solar and other renewable energy projects on federal lands to heat, cool and light five million homes.
Congress seemed to get it in 2005 when it directed the Interior Department to approve enough wind, solar and other projects on public land to produce 10,000 megawatts by 2015 — enough to heat, cool and light five million homes.
She has directed the six New Jersey commissioners to approve the two measures favored by New York only when they are included as a package with the Maersk Sealand lease.
But while Mr. Ahmadinejad is the public face of the Iranian government, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is the only Iranian leader with the authority to approve direct negotiations with the United States.
The FDA requires direct anti-fracture endpoints to approve new bisphosphonate agents; initial trials are often designed and powered for primary endpoints of vertebral fracture.
Moreover, in reviewing a protocol, personally knowing the PI can potentially not only help, but create tensions, since the IRB may then feel explicit or implicit, and direct or indirect pressure to approve his or her study.
