But it is also true that, in general, regulation has followed scandal.
The regulation currently being discussed in the context of the future European General Data Protection Regulation, whereby a maximum fine of 2% of a company's annual turnover is provided for, would, on the other hand, enable violations of data protection laws to be punished in a manner that would be felt economically.
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Al Halabi was charged with 11 counts of failing to obey a lawful general order or regulation, three counts of aiding the enemy, four counts of espionage, nine counts of making a false statement and five counts that include violations of the Federal Espionage Act.
Even if they are fed up with regulation in general, few businesses in Europe disagree with the proposals' intentions.
In general he favours light regulation, but he now agrees with Mr Obama that Wall Street needs firmer oversight.
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We went through a period of time where I think the general theory was the less regulation, the better.
Many would argue that Gordon Brown's "light-touch regulation" and general deregulation of banking, in the UK and around the world, did more to "unleash" the City than anything Margaret Thatcher did, and more to pave the way to the financial crisis.
John Curran was re-appointed director general of the Office of Utility Regulation for a further three years.
And because the world is, as a general matter, more complex today than ever before, with arcane technologies and difficult science underlying more of modern business practices, government regulation, and life in general.
It is, therefore, far easier for carmakers that make mainly smaller vehicles, such as Honda Motor, Toyota Motor and Hyundai, to meet the regulation than carmakers such as General Motors and the Chrysler unit of DaimlerChrysler, which sell hundreds of thousands of big ol' pickups and SUVs every year that can tow small houses.
Former high court judge and solicitor general Lord McCluskey was appointed to recommend press regulation reforms in Scotland.
He likes his tough policies on immigration and regulation, as well as the general appeal of his low tax, less government message.
The amendments will remove the long-standing prohibition against general solicitation and general advertising contained in Rule 502(c) of Regulation D.
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We lack the general technological sophistication of a South Korea, the enlightened regulation of a Canada, and the calm, self-effaciing resiliency of a Japan.
The right government shoe policy is no policy: the shoe industry should be governed by the same general rules of property, contract, environmental and safety regulation, and so forth that govern every other industry.
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On 27 January, UNESCO's Director-General will open the conference on "Journalism ethics and self-regulation in Europe: New media, old dilemmas".
Union general secretary Manuel Cortes accused the company and the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) of ignoring safety warnings 14 months before Lindsey was killed in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
In the wake of this scandal, other critics raised general concerns about the islands' secrecy, their allegedly poor enforcement of regulation and their poor co-operation with other jurisdictions.
The right is generally happy to devolve decisions about education or health care to the states, notes Charles Fried, a professor of law at Harvard and former solicitor-general, but not product-liability rules and other forms of business regulation.
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Put another way, how are government regulatory agencies and legislative bodies to be expected to make rational decisions around the regulation of hydraulic fracturing and the oil and gas industry in general when they are bombarded on a daily basis by media reports, blog posts and emails from anti-fractivists that seem more than anything else designed to intentionally mislead them?
Senior Statistician Ma Xiaoming said the sales price decrease indicates that, after arduous and unremitting efforts, the momentum of housing prices in general have been effectively curbed, and achieved remarkable results in the real estate regulation.
That general proposition, however, does not in and of itself indicate the kind of regulation that is needed.
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Behind its kindly general conclusions and conciliatory tone is a raft of recommendations for improving various aspects of regulation in each of the islands.
Following this post he was Head of General Broadcasting Policy 1997-99, principal DCMS author of the green papers on the regulation of broadcasting which paved the way for the current regulatory reforms.
Moreover the general public simply does not have the information and expertise to follow what is happening in financial regulation on a regular basis or to understand the implications of regulatory policies.
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At least in its later stages, Thatcherite privatisation was concerned with the restructuring of government-owned industries to introduce price mechanisms, competition and transparent regulation, to offer a share of ownership to the public, and to promote general economic efficiency.
This lack of regulation has allowed an increasing number of doctors of all types -- including gynecologists, general surgeons and even emergency medicine physicians -- to perform tummy tucks, liposuction, facelifts and breast enhancement.
Congress will also try to muscle in on banking regulation: at the very least, it will try to ensure that state attorneys-general, like Mr Spitzer, no longer drive a process that they believe to be the preserve of the federal government and federal agencies.
Yet, while the general point is surely true, at most, it only indicates an area that warrants some type of regulation.
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Most of the projects Immelt has approved are intended to help customers avoid painful regulation such as the CO2 caps in Europe or the lawsuit launched last year by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and eight other states against five U.S. utilities over their greenhouse gas emissions.
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