11.   For one thing, without competition rules in place, the agencies lack a uniform measuring stick.

12.   FTC officials have informed lawmakers that the agency lacks jurisdiction over marketing efforts and that any new law would likely raise complicated legal issues.

13.   Her view was backed by state Department of Environmental Quality Director Ed Fox, who said the environmental agency lacks funds to adequately police all pollution problems.

14.   However, the panel of medical experts said state agencies lack the expertise to examine the reports appropriately.

15.   In many of those countries, there is no law giving the civilian agency the authority to regulate airlines, or the agency lacks the resources to do so.

16.   James W. Ziglar, Commissioner of the INS, said the agency lacks money to buy scanners for the biometric border-crossing cards.

17.   Mistakes at the Atlanta Games, in which federal, state and local agencies lacked a coordinated response to the bomb, ensured an expanded federal presence.

18.   Officials said federal and state agencies lacked the resources to monitor the growing network of nursing homes, hospices and other elder-care operations.

19.   The agency has lacked a commissioner since the current President Bush took office.

20.   --The agency lacks authority to test products before they make it into the marketplace.