11.   The radio said that the prime minister had ordered price controls to be introduced.

12.   To cut down on competition, the government passed price controls on prescription drugs.

13.   Free enterprise was encouraged in private-sector hotel projects and the creation of new farms and small-scale industries not subject to state price controls.

14.   The new measures, announced in September and October, included the floating of the currency and the lifting of price controls on some petroleum products.

15.   He said that the country had surmounted a crucial test when price controls were lifted for most goods in January.

16.   The economic demands of the conference included a return to state price control and the repeal of decrees on privatization and bankruptcy.

17.   The plan raised taxes, restricted credit, and introduced price controls.

18.   Also, price controls remove the financial incentive for research and development to create new miracle drugs, she added.

19.   Analysts credit new power supplies, a state-led conservation effort and federal price controls for averting what many had feared would be a catastrophic summer of scarcity.

20.   Among the remaining differences were exactly what goods China wants on its list of those subject to price controls.