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
But landlords have refused to consider ending vacancy decontrol altogether, these people said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2011
Tenant leaders were, surprisingly, critical of Mr. Paterson’s proposal to raise the so-called vacancy decontrol threshold to $3,000 month.
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
He was pleased with the decontrolled price situation.
From Time Magazine Archive
His government decontrolled many basic prices, including those of bread, which had been regulated since the let-them-eat-cake days of 1791.
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 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
By decontrolling routes, the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 enabled dozens of new airlines to enter the business.
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
He has spoken of decontrolling some gas prices and requiring "substantial sacrifices" from the American people to assure energy supplies.
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
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
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