The property market's strength, though, has renewed concern that Beijing could further tighten policy to control prices.
Men like Rockefeller and Carnegie colluded to control prices, eliminate competition, and manipulate the free market in the name of their own narrow interests.
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It is the Department of Health's (DH) role to control prices, and this is done by what is known as the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS).
More competition means De Beers can no longer control prices the way it used to: by buying diamonds when markets are weak and selling when they strengthen.
If Hyundai is making steel rather than importing it from places like Japan or China, it can control prices and ensure adequate supply for its rapidly growing automotive business.
If Hyundai is making steel rather than importing it from places like Japan or China, it can control prices and quality, and ensure adequate supply for its rapidly growing automotive business.
Chinese stocks will probably not be so fortunate, with markets in both Hong Kong and Shanghai set to finish the week lower amid fears that Beijing will implement further tightening measures to control prices in the residential property market.
But the cartel is equally reluctant to admit that it has lost control of prices.
But the most severe penalty for operating a regulated monopoly is losing control of prices.
Despite angry Republican rhetoric, the president has little control over prices at the pump.
This is not an environment conducive to the kind of quick decision-making necessary to control oil prices.
Otherwise, the central banks could no longer control commodity prices or virtually anything else in the monetary realm.
Inveigling his way into prime minister Indira Gandhi's inner circle, Ambani found the power to control yarn prices.
An Indian government panel late last month published a set of proposals to control the prices of patented drugs.
The central bank has taken various measures in an attempt to control rising prices, including increasing interest rates 13 times since March 2010.
The hidden risk, therefore, is that the tactics that seem to be working now will prove to be inadequate to control rising prices later.
While governments and cartels can "control" prices for a while, the market will sooner or later take over, as it is doing now with Argentina.
Sadly, handing the alleged wise men at the Fed control over prices is every bit as mistaken as allowing the central bank to manage unemployment.
Markets, the president maintained as recently as Friday, control oil prices.
Nor does size confer market power, and therefore control over prices.
In addition to financing a much larger share of their health economies, these other nations also often directly control the prices of providers and of pharmaceuticals.
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Richardson said the emergency stockpile would be used only if there was a disruption in heating fuel supplies and not to control energy prices in the region.
But senior energy analyst Fadel Gheit of Oppenheimer and Co. says oil companies can no more control those prices than a farmer can dictate what he gets for a bushel of corn.
So is the reason to do that, the reason to close these unwarranted loopholes, as you say, is the reason to control gas prices or is the reason to address the deficit, primarily?
Ken Cohen, vice president of public and private affairs, explained that not only do they not control oil prices, but also that profit from the sale of gasoline and diesel fuel represents less than 3 cents out of every dollar the company earned.
Although the assembly government can not control fuel prices or income levels, which also directly affect fuel poverty, the minister confirmed that it was offering energy efficiency advice, supporting financially through schemes such as Arbed and urging people to keep warm in the cold weather.
Fuel prices have gone up, with the government lifting control on gasoline prices and raising diesel rates.
Investors are concerned that policy makers will implement additional tightening measures to control residential property prices.
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