Yet despite the concerns about taxes, voters approved 74.6 percent of the school budgets in last Tuesday's election.

On Tuesday, voters approved 74.6 percent of the budgets in 553 school districts that held elections, about the same percentage as last year.

Congress approved 97 percent of the request - $90 billion.

Last year, voters approved 69 percent of proposed school budgets.

But the 12 nations have already approved 60 percent of the 279 directives prepared by the commission to create the market.

We hope the President will approve 100 percent of our requests.

The measure was approved 56 percent to 43 percent.

The union announced that in a vote by 19,000 employees at 14 plants, the contract was approved 70 percent to 30 percent.

But from 1997 to 1998, the panel approved 90 percent of the 209 nominations referred by the Administration.

United said it had been approving 99 percent of the decisions anyway.