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
In a narrowly divided vote around 10 p.m., it passed its own proposal that provided an eight-year extension but left vacancy decontrol intact.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 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
"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
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
For market incentives to work, prices will have to be decontrolled -- a frightening prospect given the pent-up inflationary pressures.
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
I have not only decontrolled your friend's disk," the Chief explained blandly, "but I have doubled his receptability to sound.
From The Instant of Now by Irving E. Cox
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
On the verge of decontrolling oil prices, Carter feels he must now reconsider for fear of adding to inflation.
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
By decontrolling routes, the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 enabled dozens of new airlines to enter the business.
From Time Magazine Archive
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