Word: decontrolling
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THERE IS, HOWEVER, one provision in the proposed gun decontrol bill which the NRA wants you to pay particular attention to. The mandatory sentencing provision is the cornerstone of the NRA mentality, as the bill shows...
...leave an indelible mark not only on the city's mixed housing market but also on the diversity of people able to live in Cambridge. Rent control has helped forestall gentrification in the face of an especially tight housing market and potentially lucrative profits for speculators and developers if decontrol were to occur...
...make the country prosperous," because "when our state is powerful, all will be well." A day later Premier Zhao Ziyang announced in a speech that the rigid wage system for government workers would be loosened to reflect individual merit. Combined with the government's plans for imminent price decontrol through the removal of state subsidies, these policies represented the most sweeping--and riskiest--steps yet in the piecemeal revolution Deng is pursuing...
Even so, the U.S. continues to draw on nonrenewable fuels (petroleum, gas and coal) for 90% of its energy needs, not much below the 94% of 1973. The price and supply of oil worldwide remain very delicately balanced. Despite a frenzy of oilfield drilling set loose by oil decontrol, domestic production has actually slipped to 8.65 million bbl. daily, compared with 9.2 million in 1973. Now 30% more coal is being burned, but production of domestic natural gas declined by 18% in the decade. After six years, Washington's planned strategic petroleum reserve of 750 million bbl., which equals...
...observers expect the measure to get very far without major changes. Illinois Republican Tom Corcoran, a co-sponsor of the proposal, acknowledges that some bills, of his fellow House members have their names on other gas bills, most opposing decontrol. Last week a group of 29 Congressmen announced plans for a measure to roll back some prices to January 1982 levels. In the Senate, Majority Leader Howard Baker has let it be known that he will not push the Reagan proposal, filibuster. Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat, has threatened to filibuster. Ironically, the bill's best chances...