1.   Ever tighter regulations are being introduced to protect the environment from emissions contributing to the greenhouse effect or acid rain.

2.   Many of these were accepted during compromise negotiations, resulting in tighter regulations than originally proposed.

3.   Tighter regulation by Regional Health Authorities followed a much publicised role-playing exercise on contracting in the East Anglian Region known as the Rubber Windmill.

4.   Also asking CDC whether the second known case of transmission of the deadly strain of E. coli will lead to tighter regulations.

5.   An explosion in the reports of dangerous side effects caused the FDA to take another look at non-prescription products containing ephedrine, targeting the products for tighter regulation.

6.   Another reason for the credit squeeze is tighter regulations.

7.   After a partial core meltdown at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania, far tighter regulations sent the cost of building and erecting the plants soaring.

8.   Business groups, and their Republican allies in Congress, argue that this could result in tighter regulations in the United States, driving up their costs.

9.   But consumer advocates who have pushed for tighter regulation nevertheless said they were pleased by the new rules.

10.   But the government also pledged tighter regulations.