The Fleming Companies, a leading grocery distributor, won final court approval of a $150 million loan and vendor lien program, clearing a major hurdle in its bankruptcy case.
In exchange, the Clinton Administration agreed to lift sanctions that the Bush Administration had imposed on the Russian and Indian space-research programs, clearing the way for American and Russian cooperation on space programs.
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans backed down on Monday from a demand that a payroll tax rollback be paid for with reductions in other programs, clearing the way for an extension of the tax cut for 160 million Americans through 2012.
Turkey and the International Monetary Fund agreed on a three-year economic program, clearing the way for new aid from the lender to close a $10 billion financing gap through the end of next year.
Well-meaning as many volunteer preservationists are, all too frequently they forge ahead with a cleanup program, clearing brush, raising and straightening headstones and carting away chunks of fieldstone, unwittingly destroying some of the earliest grave markers.
Then, a year ago, Dr. Berry and his wife, Debra, a pediatrician, started a weight loss program, clearing out rooms in their offices in Etowah, Tenn., for exercise equipment and heart monitors.
At a minimum, this entails revamping exploitative guest worker programs, clearing decades-long visa backlogs as well as providing an earned path to legal status for currently undocumented immigrants.
On the back of each shirt is a fleur-de-lis; the front bears the slogan "Fight the Blight". The Nuisance Lot Maintenance pilot program clears 20 properties a day.
The review of the Greek program clears the way for the disbursement of €9 billion in January, part of a €110 billion loan for Greece that was agreed to last spring.
Also, the clunkers program cleared out inventories at many dealerships, leading G.M., Ford and other manufacturers to increase production at some plants and call back thousands of laid-off workers to their assembly lines.
That's a low bar, so don't be surprised if a job guarantee program clears it after a strong push in the next presidential campaign.
