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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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antitrust
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The potential concentration of those activities might also prompt antitrust regulators to give any merger close scrutiny, Threlfall said.
federal
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Four days after he opened, federal regulators demanded a redesign to better accommodate the disabled.
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The Federal Reserve and regulators in Delaware, where the banks are incorporated, approved the merger Friday.
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The banks, in turn, claimed that their hands were tied by federal regulators who discouraged them from lending.
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He has asked that the probes determine whether implant manufacturers withheld from federal regulators key studies on possible dangers of implants.
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Last year, complaints from investors led federal regulators to start looking into the firm.
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There was testimony, lots of it, on how to fix a safety device Congress and federal regulators once deemed perfect.
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The thrifts, many of which were forced into insolvency, say the change violated contractual promises that federal thrift regulators .
financial
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London's regulatory mess New legislation is needed to clear it up FINANCIAL regulators are never short of critics.
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Well not according to the Financial Services Authority, Britain's chief financial regulator .
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industry
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Societies are still very strongly capitalised, according to figures from the Building Society Commission, the industry regulator .
rail
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The system will be held together and policed by a franchising authority and a rail regulator .
state
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Congress and state regulators could speed up the construction of pipelines.
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The education program, ordered by state regulators , is the largest undertaken by a phone company.
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Cigna said it wants to resolve any disputes with the other 42 state regulators that could hurt insurance sales in those areas.
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Insurers learned that the state regulators would, during the panic, give away the store in rate increases.
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So state regulators are imposing a moratorium on new sewer hookups.
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bank
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The bidders also need approval by the Federal Reserve and other banking regulators .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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federal bank regulators
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A judge refused last week a request by rival insurers to remove the Pennsylvania regulator from ruling on the case.
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For years, vintners lobbied regulators without success for permission to advertise therapeutic or curative effects of wine.
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Politicians and regulators have connived in that illusion-and continue to do so.
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The Bill puts the customer first by giving stronger powers to the regulators of telecommunications, gas, electricity and water.
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The Commission also advocates separation between operators and regulators.
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The thrifts, many of which were forced into insolvency, say the change violated contractual promises that federal thrift regulators.
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Yet the regulators have given it a dispensation: the rubbish has to go somewhere.