1.   Ultimately the regulators will be able to use a phone call to test the methane level of a particular well at a particular site.

2.   American banking laws call for immediate disclosure of corporate wrongdoing, while Japanese regulators are more protective of companies.

3.   Although not all fines are enforced or collected, the measure is one indicator of how rigorous regulators are.

4.   American laws generally call for immediate disclosure of corporate wrongdoing, while Japanese regulators are more protective of companies based there.

5.   Although the number of complaints is small so far, regulators are concerned about their growth in recent weeks.

6.   American regulators were busy with a number of high-profile cases last year.

7.   American banking laws generally call for immediate disclosure of corporate wrongdoing, while Japanese regulators are more protective of companies based there.

8.   And frustrated federal regulators may not be able to tell if a drug works well enough to place on the market.

9.   And antitrust regulators are eager to rebound from recent setbacks in their efforts to police hospital mergers.

10.   And federal regulators have been skilled in recent years at mobilizing private sector responses to severe economic problems caused by or involving banks.