decontrol
Example Sentences
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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
About 300,000 apartments have been deregulated in the past 16 years, he said, and only a full repeal of vacancy decontrol laws would prevent more losses.
From New York Times • May 27, 2010
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
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.
