But with a nonbank financial firm, regulators would first have to review the firm's activities, and then make a decision on whether certain trading curbs have to be imposed.
More importantly, it employs 60% of Indians, many of whom now seem certain to curb their spending this year.
Alcohol Focus Scotland's chief executive, Dr Evelyn Gillan, said it welcomed recommendations such as limiting the number of licences in certain areas and curbs on advertising, but still believed minimum pricing was the best option.
"Dodd-Frank was supposed to curb certain kinds of risky behavior on Wall Street," Mike Konczal, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute who studies financial reform and inequality, told me.
Without an act of Congress, the administration is unable to significantly expand the number of gun buyers who are subject to background checks, nor curb certain types of weapons and clips, both central to Mr. Obama's gun agenda.
There can be no guarantee, of course, that a more independent officer would have, say, curbed certain practices at JPMorgan, just as separating the chairman and chief executive positions doesn't ensure missteps won't happen.
Today in Massachusetts, environmentalists credit Mr. Romney with helping to promote smart growth and reducing air pollution by putting in place tough regulations curbing certain toxic emissions from power plants.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, under pressure to respond to the tumult in the financial industry, announced emergency measures on Tuesday to curb certain kinds of short-selling that aims at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as Wall Street banks.
And the latest salvo from the opposing side is now whistling through the air: after years of fighting with Congress over gun control measures, Obama is expected to press forward with an executive order curbing certain kinds of gun sales, in the hope of lessening gun violence.
The latter demonstrates that Ag nanoparticles can inhibit the growth of biofilm protected colonies by confining them to only certain areas and curbing their proliferation.
