61.   Clarke Lanzen settled without admitting or denying the allegations and agreed not to commit similar alleged violations of securities laws in the future.

62.   Coming a day after the devastating American Airlines crash in New York City, the meeting is a key step toward enacting new security laws this year.

63.   Coming a day after the American Airlines crash in New York City, the meeting is a key step toward enacting new security laws this year.

64.   Congress gave permission for pilots to be armed with both guns and non-lethal weapons, such as stun guns, last fall in the new aviation security law.

65.   Con artists typically are fined, their assets frozen and then are told to stop violating federal securities laws or else face stiffer penalties.

66.   Corporations complain that securities law is often abused by people filing meritless lawsuits in hopes of out-of-court settlements.

67.   Critics say the SEC is retroactively applying federal securities laws without giving local officials fair warning.

68.   Current securities laws and accounting rules require companies to report what they expect to spend on environmental problems.

69.   Dodd has been pushing for several years for changes in securities law that would protect firms and businesses from frivolous lawsuits brought by disgruntled investors.

70.   Donald Langevoort of the Vanderbilt University Law School and John C. Coffee Jr. of Columbia Law School, both acknowledged experts in securities law.