Adding to the trend are looser rules on who can own a credit card, which has ignited a boom in plastic.

Mr. Segal's group shows the political and financial clout of companies that lobbied for looser rules.

And that looser rules on worker treatment mean that money can be saved by outsourcing equipment maintenance to the companies he represents.

They can hear all kinds of testimony, with only the loosest rules of relevance.

One justification for the looser rules is that they will deal with the worst of the worst.

You just have look at Myspace to see that it may be more riskier to have looser rules.

But the plans themselves are coming to see the value of looser rules.

He'd violated a few of the much looser rules of his own mother service.

Those trials have looser rules of evidence than the courts.

To others, the looser rules may have brought too much freedom.