41.   Legislation that would have given FDA regulatory oversight of tobacco failed in Congress last year.

42.   Rodriguez Ponga is accused of having devised a manual on helping clients skirt Spanish tax rules and regulatory oversight with overseas transactions.

43.   The inquiry was demanded by Socialist leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who last month called on the political leaders responsible for the regulatory oversight to resign.

44.   This stems, said Truglia, from a relatively common feature of regulatory oversight of the rating process which is the attempt to control the opinions that are issued.