Word: anti-trust
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...Boston last December, accuses the defendants, who in addition to Summers include Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, officials of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and four major banks, “of manipulative activities in the gold market” and of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust and Security Exchange Acts...
...suit is being funded by the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee, a group founded in 1999 by financial commentator Bill Murphy to advocate legal action against the key U.S. players in the gold market...
...political opposition by folks who aren't quite sure that one airline controlling a quarter of all flights in such a good idea. The General Accounting Office weighed in and published the ugly, possibly anti-competitive details of how the new combined carrier could monopolize the skies in many cities and on certain routes. Reports also said that the Department of Justice anti-trust division, which has to approve the merger for it to go through, had serious concerns about the deal as structured. Several state attorney generals were also taking a close look at the merger plan...
...Orbitz was recently cleared for takeoff by the Department of Transportation. But the progress of Southwest's suit will be closely watched by the Department of Justice and more than two dozen state attorneys general across the country who currently have Orbitz on their anti-trust radar screens...
...other points mentioned—school prayer, the Microsoft anti-trust case and the federal funding of religious organizations—are all contentious issues on which Ashcroft holds strong beliefs. However, a person’s ideology should not prevent him or her from holding this office...