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
Under existing law, a landlord must ask tenants for their incomes and go through a petition process if they want to invoke luxury decontrol.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2015
And Linda B. Rosenthal, a Manhattan assemblywoman who has sponsored a vacancy decontrol bill, said setting a higher threshold would only postpone the loss of rent-stabilized units.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2010
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
If he could decontrol even half the disks on Vinin it would create enough confusion to cover his own escape.
From The Instant of Now by Cox, Irving E.
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
Inflation will surge as more prices are decontrolled this month and the cost of oil, coal and gas is allowed to rise in April.
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
Rents and the prices of meat, bread and milk have been kept at the same level for decades; if decontrolled, they would be likely to rocket.
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
By decontrolling routes, the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 enabled dozens of new airlines to enter the business.
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
Carter reminded the executives that was decontrolling domestic oil prices n phases, beginning last Friday, and expected that they would pump more crude Tom their U.S. wells in return.
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
