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(in the U.S.) a federal law governing the amount of credit that may be advanced by a bank for the purchase of listed securities.

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Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

Director Yoo Dong-hun and screenwriter Lee Jung-u were arrested for firebombing theaters.
Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea|Rich Goldstein|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In other words, unnecessarily stringent abortion regulation could be far more dangerous than abortion itself.
Abortion Complications Are Rare, No Matter What the Right Says|Samantha Allen|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Following this supposed U-turn on his political beliefs, Darakhshan went back to Iran in October 2008.
Iran’s Blogfather Walks Free After Six Years in Jail|IranWire|November 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Others fear that giving them the force of regulation could be more harmful because they would become outdated quickly.
How Your Pacemaker Will Get Hacked|Kaiser Health News|November 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Gun regulation, of course, was not the only successful initiative, not by a long shot.
One of the Midterms’ Little-Noticed Big Losers: The NRA|Cliff Schecter|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
U was an Usurer, a miserable elf; V was a Vintner, who drank all himself.
Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17)|Various
His presence, also, always graced Walls End Castle at the regulation periods.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
The regulation chairs and tables of the furnished house had been banished from Mrs. Haggard's drawing-room.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Well, we must try our luck with a regulation sabre; they can't well refuse it; ours is the stronger and bigger man.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
His smooth brow wrinkled and his mouth tightened to a thin straight line beneath the fair "regulation" moustache.
Dope|Sax Rohmer