The non-inferiority margin of 0.12 was chosen based on previous regulatory studies and was pre-specified in the protocol.

In fact, the performance of deregulated Texas institutions like Empire had been used as a basis for regulatory studies supporting Garn-St.

"American capitalism goes through this all the time," said Irwin M. Stelzer, director of regulatory studies at the Hudson Institute.

The big question, suggests Edward Hudgins, director of regulatory studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, is whether the retreat will be purely tactical.

The proposal received a D- average grade from Wendy Gramm, director of the regulatory studies program at George Mason University.

An attorney with extensive experience in international trade regulation, Lindsey was formerly director of regulatory studies at Cato and senior editor of Regulation magazine.

"If the costs are made more explicit in this fashion, then the public can voice some opinion," said Catherine England, director of bank regulatory studies at the Cato Institute.

The Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where Ms. Gramm is director of the regulatory studies program, has received a total of $50,000 from Enron since 1996.

TopoTarget expects to launch an initial regulatory study using Belinostat as monotherapy to treat peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) by the beginning of 2009.

A handful of the world's largest commercial and investment banks failed to adequately oversee lending and trading activities with the hedge-fund giant Long-Term Capital Management, a regulatory study has found.

Mercatus has several research and outreach programs: Capitol Hill Campus, the Government Accountability Project, the Regulatory Studies Program, and the Global Prosperity Initiative.

In April 1991, Mr. Hulse, through an entity called JT Technologies, submitted an invoice for $300,000 for regulatory studies purportedly conducted for Archer Daniels.

A useful overview of real-estate payment practices in the United States is found in an October 2006 report by the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies.

Dr. Gramm, who holds a Ph.D. in economics, now heads a regulatory studies center at George Mason University, which has been in the forefront of the push for deregulation in Washington.

Prior to joining CFIB she was Director of Environment and Regulatory Studies at The Fraser Institute and taught economics at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

Edward L. Hudgins, the director of regulatory studies at the Cato Institute, a private policy-study group based in Washington, has urged Congress to kill the international space station and eventually all of NASA.

Di-22:6-BMP may be used as a biomarker of DIPL to support development of guidance for industry and regulatory reviewers on how to proceed with drug development when DIPL is observed in preclinical and clinical regulatory studies.

The two entities have often collaborated: from 1998 to 2008, they co-sponsored the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies (now housed solely at AEI), and in 2006, they launched the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project.

"The C.F.C. arrived on the scene to demonstrate that there is no company that is immune to new competitors," said Ramiro Tovar Landa, director of regulatory studies at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico, a Mexico City university.