Word: anti-trust
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...price of their product or service. Though cash customers do not benefit from the credit system, they in effect help to subsidize it because they pay the higher prices too. The situation smacked of price fixing to the nonprofit Consumers Union. So last February it brought an anti-trust suit against the most prestigious credit card company of all, American Express Co., charging that the company forbade merchants who accepted its card to give discounts to cash customers...
...systematic, covert corruption of the free reporting that is essential to freedom of the press. If the mind could any longer be boggled, surely this picture of a government plotting in secret to "tear down the institution," "to pound the magazines and the networks," to threaten the media with anti-trust prosecutions and IRS investigations to "change their views," to "plant" columns, to "generate...(and even write) a massive outpouring of letters" where no public impulse to do so existed, to "needle" a publisher, to "pester" a newspaper, to threaten networks with legislation abridging their freedom, to think of firing...
Harold S. Geneen. Among the plumbers' unit's activities was spiriting Dita Beard, a lobbyist for International Telephone and Telegraph, away from reporters inquiring into ITT's contributions to Nixon's re-election campaign. The gifts were apparently intended to get an anti-trust suit dropped--as it later was, at Nixon's personal insistence. ITT's President Geneen should probably come to trial for bribery. But just as some of the alleged Watergate consirators should have been tried years ago for other matters--things like ordering illegal mass arrests of political dissenters, as John N. Mitchell did during...
...tapes is tantamount to charging him with obstruction of justice. Such a charge is not inappropriate when leveled at the administration in Washington. Nixon has lied about the secret bombings of Cambodia, it was revealed this week that Nixon lied about his role in keeping an ITT anti-trust suit out of court, and there is every indication that Nixon and his cronies have been trying to lie their way out of the Watergate mess ever since June...
...Tuesday, the former special prosecutor admitted that he might be the source of leaks concerning Nixon's role in keeping an ITT anti-trust suit out of court. Cox said he regretted telling two senators and their aides about a conversation in which former Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst '46 admitted that Nixon had told him not to pursue an appeal of the ITT case before the Supreme Court...