Four regulators urged lawmakers to adopt a Treasury proposal for a banking overhaul, setting the stage for a showdown between the Administration and Congressional Democrats.

In recent months, several regulators have urged other moves to bolster the nation's banking system.

It was a testament to the sort of contingency planning that finger-wagging regulators urge on companies, but that only some do.

British medical regulators urged physicians on Monday to show greater caution in prescribing antidepressants to adults and said they should be clearly labeled with warnings about their use.

In a report, the regulators urged the firms to do a better job of screening potential customers and to disclose more fully the risks.

Certainly, regulators are urging banks to make a clean break with property.

LEAD: In an extraordinary meeting, the nation's top banking regulators urged banking industry executives today to continue lending to creditworthy customers.

It's obviously right that financial regulators urge banks to prepare for the worst; it would indeed be somewhat surprising if they needed to be prompted.

Those documents show that both Senators contacted regulators urging them to sell the institution to investors, rather than seize it.

So last summer, European regulators urged doctors to give the drug to kidney patients only by intravenous infusion.