Word: decontrolling
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...Rent Control Board decision to decontrol rents on vacancies would affect 25 per cent of the city's apartments which annually become vacant...
...City Council last night voted 5-4 to request Cambridge's Rent Control Board to decontrol rents on apartments "that are vacant or will become vacant in the near future...
Vellucci insisted that the resolution was not designed to abolish all rent control, as the liberal councilors charged. Vellucci said last night, "I am not against rent control. I only want to decontrol vacancies...
...some battles: he successfully resisted pressure for quick decontrol of domestic oil prices. But in September he testified to a Senate subcommittee that the U.S. had no short-term policy for reversing the rise in world oil prices; the remark angered Henry Kissinger. Last month Sawhill sealed his doom. Disobeying White House orders to keep quiet, he went on television to explain his proposal for a 10?-to 30?-per-gal. federal tax on gasoline after the Administration had rejected the idea. Morton said last week that Sawhill was being removed for lack of "executive compatibility." Ford asserted that Sawhill...
...minor controversy erupted later over whether the Administration is planning to decontrol prices for domestic oil, about 60% of which is fixed at $5.25 per barrel. Ford said that he favors eliminating the oil-depletion allowance, but only if price controls are lifted. Simon, however, maintains that there are no plans to decontrol prices except for oil produced by expensive artifical methods that increase the flow of oil from older fields. Even that would mean that the uncontrolled portion of U.S. oil would rise from about 40% of the total to more than 60% and increase oil-company income...