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...Doles have always endured good-natured ribbing about the antitrust implications of so powerful a merger as theirs, but those barbs seemed real when Dole was named Gerald Ford's running mate in 1976. Mrs. Dole took a leave from the ftc to campaign for him, and returned to her job after Carter's victory. She resigned in 1979 when her husband ran for the 1980 election, and campaigned vigorously for Ronald Reagan after Dole dropped out. Some feminists have criticized her for suspending her own career to help her husband's. Her response: "What we women fought...
...despite--or because of--this stellar performance, Washington suspects that something must be rancid at Frito-Lay. In a move that caught even antitrust experts by surprise, the Justice Department confirmed last week that it has begun a probe of the salty-snacks industry; insiders say it is focusing on Frito-Lay. The action was all the more unexpected because other companies have amassed even larger shares of their respective markets without government eyebrows being raised (see chart). But Justice is said to be looking hard at Frito-Lay's use of shelf allowances, a common retailing practice in which...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Federal Trade Commission voted Wednesday to file antitrust charges against toy retail giant Toys R Us. The commission accuses the company of "using its market power to keep toy prices higher." Regulators charge that Toys R Us keeps prices up by using its size to pressure toy manufacturers not to sell to rival retailers. Manufacturers say the company will not buy products carried by large warehouse clubs, in effect using the clout of a company that accounts for more than one-fifth of the $19-billion-a-year U.S. toy business to keep suppliers selling only...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Federal Trade Commission voted Wednesday to file antitrust charges against toy retail giant Toys R Us. The commission accuses the company of "using its market power to keep toy prices higher." Regulators charge that Toys R Us keeps prices up by using its size to pressure toy manufacturers not to sell to rival retailers. Manufacturers say the company will not buy products carried by large warehouse clubs, in effect using the clout of a company that accounts for more than one-fifth of the $19-billion-a-year U.S. toy business to keep suppliers selling only...
Areeda, who died of leukemia on December 24, was best known for his 10-volume treatise Antitrust Law, a standard in the field...