Malaysia2.1% note: approximately 30% of goods are price-controlled (2007 est.). From Wordnik.com. [Inflation rate (consumer prices)] Reference
Government offers price-controlled health insurance for all Americans, no exceptions or exclusions. From Wordnik.com. [Deane Waldman: July 4th Gift: Freedom from Newspeak, Scotoma, & Rose-Colored Glasses] Reference
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.1% note: approximately 30% of goods are price-controlled (2007 est.). From Wordnik.com. [Malaysia] Reference
In parts of Ethiopia, VOA reports on shortages of price-controlled goods such as cooking oil and oranges. From Wordnik.com. [Nations Seek to Prevent Uprisings by Controlling Food Prices] Reference
When price-controlled items became scarce, the government accused suppliers of creating artificial shortages. From Wordnik.com. [Ethiopia Sells Cooking Oil, Sugar to Correct 'Market Failure'] Reference
The result is Americans pay for research and development while the foreign, price-controlled countries, get a free ride. From Wordnik.com. [Free Riders and Drug Development] Reference
Governments do not pay for the cost of producing the price-controlled units, so inclusionary zoning works like a tax on builders. From Wordnik.com. [Affordable Housing Oxymorons, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Medicare currently pays doctors and hospitals directly on a fee-for-service model that is price-controlled and increasingly unaffordable. From Wordnik.com. [The Ryan Resolution] Reference
The most reliable sources of price-controlled items are street vendors, who charge two and three times the legal limit but tend to have stock. From Wordnik.com. [Desperado] Reference
As a result both commercial and small farmers have gotten out of the maize and wheat business, shifting to crops that are not price-controlled. From Wordnik.com. [How To Kill A Country] Reference
Drug companies would be loath to undercut their U.S. market and would be forced to negotiate for actual costs from the price-controlled countries. From Wordnik.com. [Free Riders and Drug Development] Reference
News agencies this week reported the government has closed down more than 100 retailers and suppliers who raised prices of price-controlled goods. From Wordnik.com. [Ethiopia’s Inflation Rate Hits Nearly 15 Percent in December] Reference
For rice producers, this means that 90% of their production must be price-controlled white rice, which is consumed by the vast majority of Venezuelans. From Wordnik.com. [Chávez Targets Cargill Mills in Price-Control Move] Reference
Progressive, the third-largest insurer in the country, entered the market May 1 with rates that are on average 18% below the old price-controlled rates. From Wordnik.com. [Massachusetts Miracle] Reference
Her mandate is an attempt to force everyone to buy into a highly regulated and price-controlled system where government redistributes income and dictates coverage. From Wordnik.com. [The Wages of HillaryCare] Reference
The government figure for 2007 is 22.5% but that number is derived from a basket of goods that includes price-controlled items, which are difficult to actually buy. From Wordnik.com. [Desperado] Reference
That's what beleaguered Russians learned many times over when they waited in grocery lines for price-controlled bread and chicken and chocolates during the Soviet era. From Wordnik.com. [China's oil price (ii) - and transition of SOE] Reference
One way to do so involved linking price-controlled domestic oil transactions with nonprice-controlled foreign transactions in dealings with international oil resellers. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: March Rich Pardon: Attorney Jack Quinn Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee - February 14, 2001] Reference
Her individual mandate is an attempt to force everyone to buy into a highly regulated and price-controlled system where government redistributes income and dictates coverage. From Wordnik.com. [The Wages of HillaryCare] Reference
But since price-controlled items tend to be of very poor quality and also sell out very quickly, most Argentines end up buying products at market prices, which are escalating. From Wordnik.com. [Back to the Future in Argentina] Reference
Actually, the parable would be that U.S. surgeons would be sent overseas and subject to price controls, and then flown back to the U.S. to do surgery at price-controlled rates. From Wordnik.com. [A Re-importation Parable, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
A dollar shortage also may explain the "temporary" seizure of a Cargill pasta plant in May, with the strict instructions that it will only be returned if it produces 100% price-controlled products. From Wordnik.com. [Chávez's Cash Crunch] Reference
Hence, each customer is limited to two loaves of bread apiece, and the bakeries, which lose money on each sale, bake them slowly, putting most of their effort into cakes and fancy breads, which are not price-controlled. From Wordnik.com. [Living on Pennies] Reference
Tan said many items in the price-controlled list were being sold within the ceiling price. From Wordnik.com. [nst online] Reference
"Meanwhile, there have been no corresponding reductions in the prices of price-controlled items," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Fijilive.com - Gateway to Fiji Islands - News] Reference
That money doesn't grow on trees, and it certainly doesn't come from price-controlled markets like Canada's. From Wordnik.com. [Say Anything] Reference
Ms Kumar said the greater percentage of products in the country was not price-controlled and subject to market forces. From Wordnik.com. [Fiji Times Online - Local News] Reference
Phillips went on, "It may be popular to import huge amounts of price-controlled foreign medications into the United States.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
Pharmaceutical companies will no longer be willing to risk research dollars for drug pipelines that lead into price-controlled product. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
The Phase IV housing project will remain price-controlled employee housing forever - or, at least as close to forever as the law will allow. From Wordnik.com. [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference
He wants to make Ranbaxy (now owned by Japan's Daiichi Sankyo) the largest drugseller in India, a market that is price-controlled, but growing. From Wordnik.com. Reference
As Democrats are showing by trying to pass a new insurance bill, they want all U.S. health care to function like price-controlled Medicare (4/26). From Wordnik.com. [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference
Qarase added that shop owners should voluntarily reduce prices on other goods that are not price-controlled, particularly those that are produced from oil-based energy. From Wordnik.com. [Fijilive.com - Gateway to Fiji Islands - News] Reference
Differing regulations are having an impact on drug launches; less price-controlled markets generally witness quicker launches while it takes longer in more regulated markets. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
Chavez has been playing hardball to try to get private companies to produce more price-controlled items as required under strict new regulations aimed at containing inflation. From Wordnik.com. [Macon Telegraph: Homepage] Reference
In the Senate, only a filibuster by the Democratic leadership stands in the way of amending the reform bill to invite large-scale drug importation from price-controlled nations. From Wordnik.com. [Forbes.com: News] Reference
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