The critics said regulators in other states had ordered utilities to write off similar costs.

The regulators also ordered that limousines and a corporate jet be sold.

Japanese regulators have ordered automakers to improve average gas mileage to 35.5 miles a gallon in 2010, from 30.3 now.

In May, regulators ordered banks to choose their borrowers more carefully, including those for car loans.

After an investigation, regulators ordered the company to begin following a wide range of prudent computer practices.

In many of those cases, too, manufacturers withdrew products from the marketplace even though regulators had not ordered such actions.

In that deal, regulators ordered the sale of eight stores.

When regulators ordered the banks to shore up their capital, the lenders had little choice but to call in loans.

It canceled the show hours after federal regulators ordered an investigation of the episode.

The regulators ordered other industrial banks that did not have Federal deposit insurance to stop accepting deposits.