controlled

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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

Since rubber was decontrolled on April 1, the price of natural rubber has dropped more than 5� a pound to 18��.

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

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