The ceiling is regulation black box: an inverted thicket of house lights and stage lights, protruding from black metal trusses.
While the public debate has focused on the plan to create the consumer protection agency, a huge and related behind-the-scenes lobbying battle has erupted over the issue of whether the new law would set a floor or a ceiling for regulation of lenders.
But just as the legislative achievements in Washington — health care, debt ceiling, financial regulation — have not given way to a warm and fuzzy feeling in the halls of Congress, Mr. Christie has presided over two years of loud yelling, back and forth.
Federal law, the majority ruled, "provides a floor, not a ceiling, for state regulation".
Writing in the New York Times, MIT economist Simon Johnson suggests Basel III should be a "floor, not a ceiling" for bank regulation in the U.S. Though I don't have as much to offer as Buffett if I'm wrong, I will personally guarantee you that's not happening, at least not without another crisis.
There were only small additive effects with adrenergic stimulation indicating a possible ceiling effect in up-regulation of Cx43 expression maybe caused by counter regulative mechanisms.
One madam complains of being forced to close because her ceilings were not of regulation height.
But the measures they propose are not those needed most; and they may even diminish further the chances of a treaty, since big polluters can now claim that such a thing is unnecessary.Many of the American and Chinese moves are of the command-and-control variety a ceiling on emissions here, a regulation of polluting activities there.
Findings reveal that the factory installed speed regulation of a ceiling fan can be easily duplicated upon implementation of the remote control device, with a digital display unit incorporated for precise speed control.
A second anecdote also focuses on the 1970s: Among the legacies of the 1930s was the legal requirement that the Federal Reserve (through its "Regulation Q") place ceilings on the interest rates that banks (and, starting in 1966, S&Ls) could pay on deposits.
