While the standards do not deliver cleaner air on their own, they set in motion the regulatory machinery and capital investments aimed at achieving cleaner air.

At the dawn of this new worldwide regulatory machinery, it is premature to predict its impact.

Assuming the necessary implementing legislation is passed, it will take months to put the regulatory machinery in place.

It can, however, use existing statutes and its regulatory machinery to break Noranda's resolve.

The variability in gene expression exists among the regulatory machinery that manages H2A expression.

Q. The political and regulatory machinery is grinding ahead, with promises of tighter supervision and tougher rules.

In recent decades the biggest accounting firms have dominated and largely controlled the regulatory machinery, leading to toothless supervision.

Today, when a conservative F.C.C. tries to dismantle much of the regulatory machinery, Congress is warning the agency to back off.

But over the years there have been complaints that the agency's regulatory machinery grinds far too slowly.

To the Editor: The problem of ticket availability to popular entertainment (editorial, May 29) can best be addressed by tightening existing regulatory machinery.