decontrol
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
verb
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Origin of 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
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
It would also tighten the criteria for so-called luxury decontrol, which allows landlords to deregulate apartments when tenants’ income exceeds $175,000 for two consecutive years and the rent is at least $2,000.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2011
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
Price decontrol for oil and gas is proceeding.
From State of the Union Address by Jimmy Carter
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
For market incentives to work, prices will have to be decontrolled -- a frightening prospect given the pent-up inflationary pressures.
From Time Magazine Archive
This two-tier approach has led to some economic absurdities: farmers, for example, must buy fertilizer at high, decontrolled prices but sell their grain crop at low controlled ones, sometimes at a loss.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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
On the verge of decontrolling oil prices, Carter feels he must now reconsider for fear of adding to inflation.
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
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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