REUTERS Wall Street Regulator Ramps Up Enforcement | The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, once considered a toothless regulator, brought a record number of enforcement cases over the past year, as fines soared.
The agency is also trying to improve ties to the United States, which once considered it a toothless and irrelevant bureaucracy that ignored Soviet bloc labor violations.
The CCRB, long considered ineffective and toothless, had a new chairman chosen by Mayor de Blasio and heralded as a former civil rights litigator intent on fixing the agency.
Ken Morris, a former Wall Street executive who began his career in the brokerage industry in 1979, said that he considered the exchange a toothless watchdog that protects its member firms.
To prevent this survey descending into madness, I've limited myself to the sort I cook most often, by virtue of its sheer simplicity, mung dal, which Madhur claims has "always been considered the most digestible" and is eaten "with equal relish by toothless toddlers, husky farmers and effete urban snobs".
What the FCC has on offer, as far as net neutrality goes, was considered by those concerned for the future of the public internet to be "toothless" and "riddled with loopholes" -- well worth reconsidering.
As he considered how to represent needy children around the world, he wanted to avoid the common devices: pleading eyes, toothless smiles.
And Mr Abe may even consider the threats from South Korea and China fairly toothless.
The accomplishment is the more remarkable when you consider the fine-toothed analyses and toothless stagings to which this enigmatic drama has since been subjected.
Believe me, if they added the smallest iota of value I'd consider thinking different, but the crazy toothless lady who kicks everyone that gets too close to her cardboard box hasn't made anyone's life better in a while.
