Word: anticartel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, only a day after it passed the anticartel law, West Germany's Bundestag ratified both the Common Market and Euratom Treaties. The next step is approval in that graveyard of European aspirations, the French National Assembly. Last week, as the French Assembly moved into the final stages of debate on the two treaties, attendance was scant-at one point only 18 Deputies were in the chamber-and the sole outburst of passion occurred in the parliamentary bar, where insulted Communists felled an aggressive right-wing Deputy with a broken beer bottle. Cynics blamed the apathy...
...interest on trade associations, such as the French Women's Garment Industry Federation, which would rather suppress competition and preserve high profit margins than raise wages and lower prices by increasing employees' output. After three years in which he had not once seen France's anticartel laws enforced, Shaw said French enterprise is more fettered than free. His prescription: some U.S.-style "trustbusting" to dissolve restrictive cartels...
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