Others have pointed to deregulation efforts as contributing to the collapse.
The removal of such barriers is at the heart of the deregulation effort.
California has probably not derailed deregulation efforts.
The deregulation effort eventually petered out, but the Reaganites continued to use administrative discretion in their efforts to lighten the burden of regulation on industry and business.
Critics here say he and other utilities executives helped create the crisis by supporting the ambitious deregulation effort passed by the state Legislature two years ago.
A snowstorm today did what six years of the Reagan Administration's deregulation efforts had failed to accomplish.
The three-member commission rejected a deregulation effort to force the regional Bells to lease elements of their networks to rivals at low costs set by state regulators.
The deregulation effort certainly has not moved fast enough to satisfy travelers at Ben-Gurion.
The Reagan Administration has considered the lifting of the prohibitions one of the priorities of its deregulation effort.
It was only after the major deregulation efforts, notably the Telecommunications Act of 1996, that we got to the ridiculous state we're in today.