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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0745.00066.] The author has shown [in Ring theory 1989, in Honor of S. A. Amitsur, Proc. Symp. Workshop, Jerusalem/Isr. 1988/1989, Isr. Math. Conf. Proc. 1, 150-192 (1989; Zbl 0674.16004)] that if \(A\) is a commutative local integral domain and \(R\) is a (not necessarily commutative) \(A\)-algebra which is free as an \(A\)-module then an element \(y\) of \(R\) is invertible if and only if it becomes invertible on tensoring \(R\) both ``at the top'', namely with the residue field of \(A\), and ``at the bottom'', namely with the field of fractions of \(A\). Here he gives some generalizations in several directions. More specifically, he shows that (i) the condition that \(A\) is local can be removed and invertibility ``at the top'' can be replaced by invertibility modulo every maximal ideal of \(A\), (ii) the condition that \(A\) be a domain can be removed, replacing invertibility ``at the bottom'' by invertibility ``at the bottom'' of the ring factored by each minimal prime, (iii) invertibility can be weakened to the property of being left regular ``at the top'' and being right invertible ``at the bottom'', (iv) invertibility can be generalized to conditions on the bijectivity of a homomorphism of free \(A\)-modules. The second half of the paper consists of several interesting examples illustrating the futility of other generalization attempts.