1.   Presto, the gold standard controlled prices and alleviated trade imbalances.

2.   The Canadian parliament recently extended patent protection after pharmaceutical companies promised to control prices and to increase their spending on research into new drugs.

3.   Back when the federal government controlled prices and routes, air travel connected fewer different places, offered less convenient schedules and cost a lot more.

4.   Bingaman, the expected chair of the Energy Committee, said he would back a bill to control electricity prices in California.

5.   A cartel that controlled the price of Chinese-language newspapers in Hong Kong has dissolved in a price war.

6.   Both states have deregulated their electricity markets, so they no longer control the price of power.

7.   But she cautioned that too much enthusiasm among apartment buyers could revive talk of government measures to control prices by driving speculators out of the market.

8.   Cable television, one of the last industries to have its prices controlled by the government, is about to become almost completely deregulated.

9.   Companies receive tax benefits for stock donations, and also use them to help control share prices.

10.   Competition among alliances of carriers should prevent any of them from gaining enough market power to control prices, he said.