51.   Coffee worries that in-house regulators would be vulnerable to cost-cutting pressures.

52.   Consumer advocates said regulators were unlikely to approve the deal without major modifications.

53.   Consumer advocates were delighted to see how far regulators were able to push the merger partners to allow competition on Time Warner cable lines.

54.   Economics Minister Werner Mueller recently said the regulators may have been too tough.

55.   Dye also pointed to the federal search of Tyson as more evidence that Missouri regulators are not enforcing the federal Clean Water Act.

56.   Earlier agreements were more explicit, but regulators were more cautious in later transactions, he said.

57.   European regulators are also likely to require them to sell their low-cost subsidiaries.

58.   Even so, the end of the game may be nearing in Kansas, where regulators are in the middle of their hearings.

59.   FDA regulators are diligent about policing health claims.

60.   Federal regulators are not the only ones who may have pointed questions about a merger between Bell Atlantic and Airtouch, however.