As a result, regulators and investors cannot easily determine the sort of risky business that is being conducted by America's mutual funds at any given moment.

If regulators determine, however, that Andersen could afford to pay more - a prospect seen to be unlikely - then additional financial penalties could be added.

That ban expired several weeks later as regulators determined the ban was not stabilizing the price of stocks.

The Hongkong bid, however, could be referred instead to the European Commission if regulators determine a major part of its business is on the Continent.

Will Steele, a managing deputy attorney general in West Virginia, said regulators determined that the settlement's language on billboards did not cover barn signs.

For years, he said, international regulators of commercial fishing determined allowable annual catches by calculating maximum sustainable yields according to equilibrium theory.

Second, regulators must determine the value of those expense items.

If regulators determine that the submitted data show no significant difference between the modified and unmodified products, then the regulators will generally not require further food safety testing.

Stock purchasers must wait up to 30 days while Federal regulators determine if the proposed deal violates antitrust laws.

Concurrently, the regulators determined that they wanted to avoid a scenario which had happened in the days prior to the LLQP.