| 21. | And both want to close a loophole opened in the 1980s that allows companies to escape rate regulation.
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| 22. | The results of continuing utility influence over rate regulation in Arkansas may be seen by comparing regional pricing.
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| 23. | Cable television companies do not want to accept more rate regulation unless local phone companies open up their networks.
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| 24. | Hundt's first task when he took his job in December 1993 was toughening cable-rate regulation.
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| 25. | That forces liquid fuel pipelines to compete with other shippers, holding down rates and making rate regulation unnecessary.
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| 26. | These private utilities are generally subject to regulation, including rate regulation, by the California Public Utilities Commission.
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| 27. | Federal and state regulators treated them as " natural monopolies " and kept them under tight rate regulation.
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| 28. | Insurers subject to rate regulation can set their premiums from 30 percent above to 30 percent below the benchmark rates.
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| 29. | The Austin-based company is one of 24 in the state not subject to rate regulation under Texas law.
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| 30. | Such companies serve about 95 percent of the Texas market, but remain exempt under Texas law from rate regulation.
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