1.   It was a constant struggle to stay one step ahead of thrift regulators in Washington.

2.   As part of the agreement, Inner City Press withdrew its challenges before state and federal thrift regulators.

3.   Ahmanson, citing a letter from California thrift regulators, said today it believes it can combine Great Western with its Washington bank.

4.   Ahmanson, citing a letter from California thrift regulators, said today it believed it can combine Great Western with its Washington bank.

5.   The first Internet bank approved by the thrift regulator was Security First Network Bank of Atlanta, Ga.

6.   To solve the problem, thrift regulators resorted to creative accounting.

7.   What the thrift regulators did, though, bordered on the perverse.