11.   Federal regulators imposed some limited caps last week, but California has pushed for broader and stricter limits.

12.   In all of those areas, regulators can impose civil fines for the same kinds of violations that are subject to criminal penalties.

13.   In its letter to the FCC, Information Technology Industry Council President Rhett Dawson said regulators should not impose restrictions on companies that want to offer high-speed Internet service.

14.   In granting the license, regulators had imposed a list of conditions intended to keep the marketplace competitive.

15.   In many industries, state regulators have imposed minimum prices to try to prevent producers from undercutting each other with price slashing.

16.   Indeed, these regulators might cite, as a cautionary example, the checks and safeguards that other, ruder regulators impose on people who oversee nuclear reactors.

17.   It was impossible to predict whether the regulators would impose any significant obstacles to the proposed acquisition of Mobil by Exxon.

18.   Meanwhile, California energy czar S. David Freeman, in town to lobby on the subject, says he hopes federal regulators will impose price caps on wholesale electricity.

19.   Nevertheless, federal regulators finally imposed price limits in June based on the cost of the least-efficient, and thus most expensive, generating plant.

20.   Regulators did not impose a financial penalty in settling the case, though shareholders have filed a lawsuit over the matter.