Peter Löscher, the chief executive of Siemens, announced last week that the engineering company would pull out of Iran once it had cleared its order sheet and fulfilled its contracts over the next couple of years, mostly infrastructure projects.
The United States Postal Service said it had cleared its debt, once as high as $11 billion, for the first time since the 1970's.
The agency, often criticized for the pace of its approvals, noted that it had cleared this diagnostic device in less than six months.
A federal court in November vindicated Housing Works on one point, determining that it had cleared up its financial problems and had been unfairly denied a contract.
And at about two-thirds of its stores in the United States, it is adding promotional merchandise back into the middle and sides of its main aisles, which it had cleared in an effort to declutter the stores.
On Monday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), basically the US military's mad scientist division, announced it had cleared another milestone in its quest to develop self-guided bullets.
A Russian human rights group said Wednesday that it had cleared an initial hurdle in its legal fight to declassify documents about a 1940 massacre of Polish officers by Soviet troops that still causes tensions between Russia and Poland.
But once it had cleared the launchpad, it performed perfectly.
It had cleared out a good bit by then.
He wouldn't let you leave until it had cleared outside.
But once it had cleared the launching pad, it performed perfectly.
