decontrol
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
verb
Etymology
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
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
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
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
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
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
Except in the fuel and energy sectors as well as communications and transportation, almost all prices have been 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 1995 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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
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 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
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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