1.   After that, the companies will have to satisfy federal regulators.

2.   But first, cars with the molded bodies must satisfy safety regulators in Europe and North America.

3.   But nationalist arguments are not likely to satisfy antitrust regulators.

4.   But such a move is unlikely to satisfy American regulators.

5.   Diageo, of Britain, and Pernod Ricard, of France, think they have come up with a way of dividing the Seagram portfolio that will satisfy regulators.

6.   Emerging from their deliberations Thursday afternoon, the commissioners disclosed that the companies had been unable to satisfy the regulators after months of intensive negotiations.

7.   France Telecom, which got the stake when it bought Orange from Vodafone earlier this year, had to sell it to satisfy antitrust regulators.

8.   Half the board is now made up of outsiders to satisfy regulators.

9.   GTE is spinning off Genuity so it can satisfy federal regulators and merge with Bell Atlantic Corp., creating telephone service giant Verizon Communications.

10.   Iberia was eager to sign the agreements to satisfy EU regulators, said Lizann Peppard, an AMR spokeswoman in London.