Apple's board already has the right to issue preferred stock, but it is asking shareholders at its annual meeting later this month to vote on a proposal that would require shareholder approval to issue preferred stock.

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Furthermore, if we've already approved drugs in this class, you need to address this issue if you want to keep approval.

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The US is one of the few countries which requires government approval to issue debt.

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And what the proposal was was simply that Apple must ask for shareholder approval to issue preferred stock if it wished to do so in the future.

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However, one of the three proposals that Apple had put up for shareholder voting required that shareholder approval be necessary to issue preferred stock in the future.

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While it has taken several years to emerge, Missouri now awaits voter approval of Proposition A after one of the broadest issue coalitions ever to come together from our diverse state demographics.

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Hailed several years ago as a breakthrough immunotherapy for prostate cancer, its Provenge vaccine seemed likely to win FDA approval five years ago until an unusual turn of events prompted the agency to issue a delay.

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Some of the FDA announcements at issue involved delays in the approval process due to the drugs' safety or efficacy tests.

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Several programs were slated for closure before and after the inquiry, but ATI had resolved the key issue with TWC, was in compliance, and regular certificates of approval had been reissued to all ATI-owned schools, according to the letter.

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