It's impossible to predict how Manhattan would change in response to looser restrictions.
Beatriz's case has become a test to gauge how expansive the shift toward looser restrictions will be.
Today, only two per cent of all United States stock-market shares are shorted, and even with looser restrictions short selling is likely to remain uncommon.
Tribunal rules give prosecutors control over defense subpoenas and have looser restrictions against hearsay evidence, statements made outside court by people who are not available for cross-examination.
She said current enforcement actions could lead to another 2.3 million tons of reductions but that the likelihood of looser restrictions had caused plant operators to put off making upgrades.
Daniel A. Bell, who teaches political theory at Tsinghua University in Beijing, suggested that Western political leaders and rights advocates were naïve to think that the Olympics would lead to looser restrictions.
Not in China" (front page, Aug. 21) reports my suggestion that Western political leaders and human rights advocates "were naïve to think that the Olympics would lead to looser restrictions".
There is some concern in France over the prospect of looser restrictions on agricultural products, or the dismantling of regulations designed to promote French films and other cultural products.
As public offerings have ramped up again on Wall Street — with $10.4 billion in proceeds generated from private-equity-backed offerings in 2012 and $12.6 billion so far this year — banks have clamored for looser restrictions and got them in the JOBS law.
After setting up SpamWatch in the program's preferences and deciding how aggressively you want to screen your mail (stricter settings increase the chance that legitimate messages get nabbed, but looser restrictions may allow more spam to slither through), you simply let Eudora check the mail as usual.
The panel's recommendations ranged from the obvious -- instructing caseworkers to notify law enforcement officials when a child is missing -- to more ambitious measures, like urging Mr. Bush to press Congress for looser restrictions on federal money so states can develop innovative child welfare programs.
