1.   A yearlong Austin American-Statesman investigation found a history of lax regulation by the Office of Pipeline Safety.

2.   After all, the Disneys, Time Warners, and Universals need the Republicans to keep business regulations lax and tax loopholes big.

3.   But thanks to lax regulation and unscrupulous vintners, much of the wine in China is of poor quality.

4.   Critics have long charged that lax regulation costs lives.

5.   Its smaller stock exchanges have reputations for lax regulation and even slacker enforcement.

6.   Lax regulation, poor disclosure and a slew of dismal corporate earnings caused foreign investors to shun Chinese stocks in recent months.

7.   The book accurately conveys a sense of lax regulation and enforcement, and points to a poaching problem that the province is loathe to admit.

8.   The mass resignation shows how serious this scandal is to Nomura and to the authorities, whom investors criticize for lax regulation of the financial markets.

9.   The postwar boom in Japan was built on an elaborate system of government support, much of it undisclosed, including favorable loans and lax regulation.

10.   There also is concern that technology applicable to nuclear weapons could fall through the cracks of overly lax regulations.