In Germany, after legislators considered a law that would curbStreet View, the company allowed individuals to request that photos of their property be removed from the service before it was launched.
After a weekend of negotiations as Lehman Brothers Holdings was heading toward bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch was seeking a buyer, Wall Street firms lobbied Mr. Cox to take greater steps to curb short-selling.
But the Street administration has been beset by corruption scandals and by its inability to curb a skyrocketing homicide rate, and some of that could be rubbing off on Brady.