41.   He then asked Texas regulators last week to tighten state rules on auto pollution.

42.   His passion illustrated the difficulties in selling international financial regulation to those countries that believe they can only stand to lose when rules are tightened.

43.   House Republicans announced plans Friday to vote next month on banning gifts to representatives and their staffs and on tightening registration rules for lobbyists.

44.   If you get the feeling that hotels and car-rental companies are tightening their rules, it is not an attack of paranoia.

45.   In Congress, pressure is mounting on Greenspan to tighten the rules on buying stocks with borrowed money.

46.   In its wake, a number of states said they would review and possibly tighten rules.

47.   In recent years rules have been tightened to force that, and the SEC is now pushing for rules to make it happen more often.

48.   In recent years, many states have begun to tighten rules on warranties.

49.   In fact, the Government Accounting Office, the inspector general and others for years have asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to tighten those rules.