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That is not all the big steelmakers want. USX-U.S. Steel has asked Washington to waive antitrust law and let it merge with Bethlehem Steel, National Steel and other troubled companies. USX-U.S. Steel also wants the government to assume the unfunded pension and retiree-health-care obligations of its takeover targets--estimated at $13 billion over the actuarial lifetimes of retirees. At Bethlehem Steel--operating under Chapter 11 protection since October--13,000 workers now support benefits for 130,000 recipients. Much of the money, the steelmakers say, could come from revenues generated by tariffs on imported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protectionism: Steeling Jobs | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

Soon after, then-Trade and Industry Minister Peter Mandelson chose not to submit the company's $2 billion takeover of the a British utility called Wessex Water to a review by antitrust authorities. This coincidence did not go unnoticed by the nation's broadsheet press: it received the mild scandal treatment in the left-wing Sunday newspaper, the Observer, while the daily Independent wryly called the decision "a test case for companies which have made donations to the Labour Party." In 1999, the party itself held an internal inquiry scrutinizing the payments. But soon the story was mostly forgotten, filed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enron and Labour: Smoke, No Fire | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

...lose market share to the Microsoft-Intel-dominated world. A little more than 4% of new PCs sold in the U.S. are Macs. (Don't ask about worldwide sales, where Apple has actually slipped to less than 3% of the market, from 5.2% five years ago.) With Microsoft's antitrust troubles tabled for now and a new operating system, Windows XP, that's stabler and simpler to use than ever, Apple will be hard pressed to attract converts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apple's New Core | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

...Best Legal Chutzpah To settle private antitrust claims that it overcharged for its Windows operating software, in which it has a monopoly, Microsoft said it would donate more than $1 billion in software and training to the poorest schools in the U.S. Not everybody is happy. A U.S. federal judge is considering whether to make the company donate cash instead of its products, lest Microsoft gain dominance in the education market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...ambassadorial skills and government contacts may be just what AOL Time Warner needs. To succeed, the company has to forge corporate alliances and persuade regulators around the world to take its side on everything from antitrust questions to e-commerce taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can A Nice Guy Run This Thing? | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

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