1.   Bills to toughen regulation of health maintenance organizations unanimously passed in both the Massachusetts House and Senate.

2.   Even after Enron, legislation to strengthen pension protections, toughen accounting regulations, and tighten bookkeeping for stock options all have been stalled in committee.

3.   McClellan also drew attention to actions Bush has taken as governor that toughened firearms regulations.

4.   Now, he is trying to get industrywide regulations toughened.

5.   On the other hand, Florida regulators recently toughened its regulations.

6.   Shares of companies dealing with the environment soared on optimism a government move to toughen regulations on pollution will boost sales.

7.   The dispute continued at hearings here by the Environmental Protection Agency on a proposal to toughen regulations aimed at reducing smog and soot.

8.   The rest comes from local medical waste incinerators, whose regulations will be toughened this fall, and from coal- and oil-burning local power plants.

9.   Toughening the regulations, Doolittle says, would simply make things worse.

10.   France does have some of the strictest rules on nuclear waste in Europe, and proposals currently under consideration would toughen those regulations even further.