The measure would have required elaborate cost-benefit studies of major rules and opened significant new opportunities for industry to challenge regulations in court.

After an elaborate study, the company concluded that personal computers will likely remain a tough market with thin margins at best.

The requirements for elaborate studies to show the risk and benefits of a regulation will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

He continued to produce numerous elaborate academic studies and became the international authority on all matters relating to the Arab world and Muslim religion.

Despite elaborate studies with every requirement foreseen, "the fortifications existed on paper but nothing had been done on the ground."

Passions have been raised on both sides and even the most elaborate studies have come to no definite conclusions.

After conducting elaborate studies over two years to determine their income and expenses for each type of customer, bankers are finding some surprising results.

But he soldiered on, conducting more elaborate studies with rats and, years later, moving on to humans.

Dr. Graham said his group is doing a more elaborate study in which researchers will look for evidence linking dairy products with risk of ovarian cancer.

Why should such an obvious finding need an elaborate controlled study to establish?