Word: antitrusters
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...jets to several U.S. airline, and promised to grant competitors access to certain aviation technologies. Those concessions should assuage European fears for Boeing's last major competitor, European plane-maker Airbus Industrie, which has been steadily losing market share to the American company. Calling his approval preliminary, EU antitrust chief Karel Van Miert said more time was needed to read the fine print of Boeing's offers before a formal go-ahead is issued. A green light is expected as early as next week. While the Europeans could not have blocked the merger, they could have prevented Boeing from setting...
...computer, bypassing Ticketmaster's home page. Sales soared, but Ticketmaster was unappreciative. Microsoft ought to add an irony link; it was the Seattle band Pearl Jam that accused Ticketmaster of monopolizing rock-concert ticket sales. And it wasn't too long ago that Microsoft wiggled out of the antitrust docket at the Justice Department. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates knows whom to call to straighten this out. Ticketmaster is controlled by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft...
...take strong exception to the implication in your article on West Publishing's Vance Opperman that the Justice Department's antitrust division under my tenure as Assistant Attorney General, 1993-96, made any decision on the basis of political contributions or as a result of political influence [NATION, April 21]. I was never contacted by the White House about any of the myriad important companies and individuals whom we prosecuted or investigated. I am immensely proud of our record for such prosecutions as Archer Daniels Midland, Microsoft, GE and literally scores of others. Undoubtedly many of those we prosecuted were...
...Neuwirth in his West Wing office. The object, says White House special counsel Lanny Davis, was to "determine what if any response the White House might have" to Opperman's concern. At McLarty's direction, Neuwirth made inquiries at Justice, and learned of a complicating issue. The department's Antitrust Division was investigating the online service industry West dominated for alleged monopolistic practices. The White House quickly bowed...
...February the department formally abandoned any online plans that would have undercut his company. Justice officials said cost and complexity, not political influence, determined the outcome. West soon thereafter won a $14.2 million contract to provide Justice with online legal research. Not only that, but the department's antitrust investigation never seemed to get off the ground...