The measures introduced have included imposing a monopoly for the import and sale of wine and stronger alcohol, limiting access to beer sold in shops (restricted hours of sale), imposing high taxes on all sales and disseminating information on the consequences of alcohol use.
Holder's recommendations included imposing new controls on company spending, human resources and other areas where executives had wide discretion.
The things regulators have yet to finish include imposing limits on the size of bets investors can make using credit default swaps and other exotic financial instruments, and also requiring investors to maintain sufficient reserves to make good on all of those bets.
While Mr. Obama and his aides have spoken of military options, including imposing a no-flight zone over Libya, they have so far limited their concrete actions to imposing new sanctions, freezing assets and monitoring Libyan military communications traffic.
The most complex and potentially perilous tasks the United States has assigned itself lie ahead -- including imposing enough law and order to allow medicine and food to reach an ill and starving population, and to prevent a resurgence of violence.
Sticking points in Lausanne had included the speed and scope of the lifting of international sanctions now imposed on Iran.
This should include imposing a nationwide five-minute "grace" period before imposing fines on drivers whose parking tickets have expired, as already happens in some areas, it added.
Indeed, despite all the obstacles Washington has imposed, including making it a crime for banks and credit card companies to handle Internet gambling payments, millions of Americans still manage to play poker and place sports bets online.
She is bound to come under immediate pressure, however, to roll back a raft of environmental regulations that the Clinton administration has imposed, including final pollution control rules that would force drastic reductions in the emissions of buses and trucks over the next decade.
That includes Venezuela, which has an imposing lineup but fewer strong pitchers to choose from.
