were deregulating

• past progressive

  past progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.

  of deregulate.
  deregulate

  verb (used with object)

  to remove government regulatory controls from (an industry, a commodity, etc.).

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