11.   The announcement on the lead reporting rules was made by EPA Administrator Christie Whitman, who said that public scrutiny has helped reduce emissions of other toxic substances.

12.   The civic association also never obtained tax-exempt status, which the IRS grants charitable groups that follow reporting rules.

13.   The information would not be used to determine admissions, but to meet federal and state reporting rules.

14.   The new reporting rule is based on a federal and state crackdown on storefront shops in Queens and northern Manhattan, touted by administration officials as a big success.

15.   The push for state reporting rules follows final approval earlier this month of a landmark federal banking bill that includes provisions easing community lending standards.

16.   Those partnerships were later found to have violated federal financial reporting rules.

17.   A corporate practices expert suggested that the SEC may have had difficulty defining which risks companies must define under reporting rules, since risk can be an imprecise concept.

18.   House Speaker Robinson Nabulyato accused them of abusing parliamentary reporting rules and failing to obey a summons from a disciplinary panel of lawmakers.

19.   Josephine Hui, research director of Celestial Asia Securities, said speculators still could easily evade new reporting rules by spreading their purchases among several brokerages.

20.   Josephine Hui, research director of Celestial Asia Securities, said speculators still could easily evade the new reporting rules by spreading their purchases among several brokerages.