The new year is approaching, and it is time to make a life change.

Pressure for similar cuts in other states is likely to intensify as the fiscal year approaches its end on June 30.

For most of their lives, they've been borrowers and they still are: Consumer debt this past year approached a record $1.2 trillion.

The total amount to be raised this year may approach the $23 billion in Federal tax increases that Congress enacted last fall.

The Sikh population dwindled even more, to 1,099, as the year 1918 approached.

From 1980 to 1990, there were double-digit increases in hospital rates, some years approaching 20 percent on average.

"Because the most sacred day of the year is approaching."

But a year and a half after the attack of September 11, there had been nothing approaching the horror of those attacks.

Antoine has reached adulthood, and his 32nd year is approaching.

One year after the release of the TR-1 sales approached the 100,000 mark.