81.   One priority was the rejection of proposed price caps on electricity in California.

82.   Pearson said it is difficult to gauge how hard companies will be hit by possible price caps, windfall profit taxes and merger and acquisition restraints.

83.   Power generators are fighting such moves, arguing that price caps are contrary to the spirit of deregulation and discourage energy companies from investing in new power plants.

84.   Politicians are meddling, arbitrarily imposing rate freezes and price caps.

85.   Regulators finally acted in early summer, instituting price caps on the wild California market.

86.   Post-devaluation inflation has been controlled somewhat by government price caps.

87.   Republicans portray themselves as stewards of the free market and long- term solutions, rejecting price caps and refunds as heavy-handed overreactions with Soviet-style results.

88.   Safety equipment would not be subject to a price cap.

89.   Sen. Barbara Boxer, a Democrat, introduced legislation that would impose a price cap on electricity throughout the West.

90.   Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., praised the bill and said it might head off a move in Congress to pass a law setting price caps.