decontrol
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In 1983, he helped Dingell block a high-stakes bill to decontrol natural gas prices when a majority on the committee favored passage.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2015
The Assembly bill would change the luxury decontrol limits to $300,000 in income and $3,000 in rent.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2011
But landlords have refused to consider ending vacancy decontrol altogether, these people said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2011
But tenants fought back and won in a court decision that also undercut plans for using city tax abatements to further sweeten returns on apartments pushed into luxury decontrol.
From Time ● Jan. 20, 2010
"The standing joint committee of the Industrial Women's Organisations have passed a resolution unanimously endorsing the action of the Consumers' Council in opposing the decontrol of meat."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14 by Sir Owen Seaman
Legislators who created the 421-g program always intended for the units to be decontrolled when they hit the $2,000 mark, he said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2010
Unless prices are decontrolled and competition introduced into the market, says Ed Hewett, a Brookings Institution expert on Soviet economics, "it makes no sense at all."
From Time Magazine Archive
This two-tier approach has led to some economic absurdities: farmers, for example, must buy fertilizer at high, decontrolled prices but sell their grain crop at low controlled ones, sometimes at a loss.
From Time Magazine Archive
The additional oil from older wells produced by "enhanced recovery" methods, like the injection of steam or chemicals, was also decontrolled.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most prices are now fully decontrolled, and the Vietnamese currency has been effectively devalued and floated at world market rates.
From The 1995 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Perestroika might make strikes more likely, since reform will eventually entail decontrolling prices and closing inefficient factories, measures that workers are likely to fight.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next plan, the Supreme Soviet urged, should be far bolder in cutting government spending, deregulating economic activity and decontrolling prices.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ford pledged again to send Congress a plan for gradually decontrolling all U.S.-produced oil; about two-thirds of it is now price-fixed at $5.25 per bbl.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has spoken of decontrolling some gas prices and requiring "substantial sacrifices" from the American people to assure energy supplies.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the verge of decontrolling oil prices, Carter feels he must now reconsider for fear of adding to inflation.
From Time Magazine Archive
