Situated outside city limits, they are virtually unregulated, with minimal public services or building requirements.

Tobacco advertising and promotion is "virtually unregulated," according to the report.

Virtually unregulated, the banks had been allowed to borrow more than 10 times the country's gross domestic product.

At the moment, vegetable growers and packers are virtually unregulated.

They are neither futures nor securities, which happily leaves them virtually unregulated.

Divorce, which protects the interests and property of married people if the relationship breaks up, is virtually unregulated under the new law.

The problem is how to regulate the supplements, which are virtually unregulated.

"Small employers will be giving millions of dollars to insurance companies that are virtually unregulated."

Wages for baby-sitting have remained low, and the work is virtually unregulated.

Though such funds are accepted as inevitable today, they are virtually unregulated.