In the budget-balancing law passed by Congress this summer, New York specifically was given retroactive approval to use dozens of such taxes this way.

As a result, the implants were given retroactive approval under the law.

The last reason was the one used by Mr. Yeltsin for calling on the army to clear the Parliament center, so the doctrine in effect gave retroactive approval.

The legislation, which would provide the first legal definition of "covert action," would ban retroactive approval of such operations by the President.

But the Planning Commission refused last year to grant retroactive approval to the larger building.

He proposed a bill of indemnity granting him retroactive approval for governing without a legal budget.

The document, which gave retroactive Presidential approval for the shipment, was called a finding.

Perhaps he will find a way to give a sort of retroactive approval to Migron and thereby avoid confrontation.

Unless you've already done so, and in that case you have my retroactive approval.

Damascus said it would consider a meeting there as Moscow's retroactive approval of Camp David.