71. Risking the wrath of foreign investors and free-market political leaders in the West, it imposed strict controls on its capital markets. 72. Senior government officials promised to continue a previously announced crackdown on speculators and profiteers who had been hoarding large amounts of food after the government imposed price controls. 73. Some companies and individuals are concerned that a newly independent Quebec might freeze bank accounts and impose exchange controls to prevent a capital flight, analysts said. 74. Some legislators want the government to impose stricter control on the Internet and others worry about violating First Amendment rights. 75. Some would impose controls on profit. 76. States where the air violates these standards must then impose pollution controls that can cost industries billions of dollars and inconvenience motorists. 77. That order imposed price controls on electricity sold in the West and set up a process for determining how much California was overcharged for power between December and May. 78. That view gained momentum on Thursday, when Gov. Gray Davis asked the federal government to impose controls on the wholesale price of electricity across the West. 79. That would require the agency to conduct detailed studies of risks, as it must do when it imposes pollution controls. 80. The accord restricts advertising, bans vending machines, calls for a reduction in teenage smoking and imposes government controls over nicotine. |