Word: antitrust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school grading standards, but the incident showed that the court has internal checks and balances. Lobbying by outsiders is shown to be futile. When the Washington lawyer and Franklin Roosevelt brain-truster Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran visited his old friend Black and acquaintance Brennan to get a controversial antitrust decision reheard, or when New York Times Editor James ("Scotty") Reston telephoned Burger to talk about the Pentagon papers case, they were quickly rebuffed...
...American Bar Association commission condemned for inactivity and Ralph Nader's Raiders ridiculed as "the little old lady on Pennsylvania Avenue." Established in 1914, the FTC for most of its history was a largely ineffective agency that rarely used its powers to curb deceptive advertising and to press antitrust cases. In 1975, however, Congress broadened the commission's mandate to investigate and regulate whole industries rather than just individual companies...
...other hand, Kennedy wants the Government to be more aggressive in intervening to stop large corporations from dominating their markets. He has co-sponsored a bill that would greatly restrict mergers among large corporations. He urges more vigorous enforcement of existing antitrust laws, arguing that some big corporations, like Big Government, are "too large and unresponsive...
...hold on to it. (Muny made a profit of more than $200,000 last year while charging customers seven per cent less than CEI. CEI resents this competition and has long tried to strangle the city's company. In 1977, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission found CEI had violated the antitrust laws, and it ordered CEI to take 10 corrective measures, including transmitting cheaper power to Muny. The city is now pressing a $327 million antitrust suit against CEI which would become moot if CEI purchased Muny...
...President Carter has shifted the balance of federal R. and D. spending, which this year will total $30 billion, toward basic research. Carter this month will also present the results of a 20-month Commerce Department study on innovation. Presidential recommendations are expected to include modifications of patent and antitrust laws to protect inventors and encourage joint developments, tax breaks for small innovative businesses, and the creation of cooperative technology centers to get technical information flowing among business, Government and academe...