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
The Assembly has passed a bill that would eliminate vacancy deregulation and raise the rent and income thresholds for luxury decontrol to $3,500 and $225,000.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2015
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 Irving E. Cox
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
The legislation decontrolled prices at the same time, which sparked the fare wars that have saved consumers some $6 billion annually.
From Time Magazine Archive
Except in the fuel and energy sectors as well as communications and transportation, almost all prices have been decontrolled.
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 1994 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
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
He has spoken of decontrolling some gas prices and requiring "substantial sacrifices" from the American people to assure energy supplies.
From Time Magazine Archive
The EPA fears that decontrolling prices will merely widen the gap between the cost of leaded and unleaded gas and encourage more drivers to skirt the law that requires unleaded in new cars.
From Time Magazine Archive
