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...years ago, a student like Yerasi might have gone to Penn. Now, after the May settlement of an antitrust suit filed by the Department of Justice, Yerasi and some of his classmates say they are seeing such wide discrepancies in financial aid offers that their college choices are virtually made for them...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have got together and matched one another's financial-aid offers to students. It was an attempt, they say, to avoid bidding wars for the most desirable prospects. But Attorney General Dick Thornburgh charged the schools with price fixing, a violation of the Sherman Antitrust...
...year series of negotiations and investigations ended this week when the United States Justice Department filed an antitrust suit against nine colleges, including Harvard...
Microsoft's battle with IBM is far from Gates's only concern. Prompted by his competitors, the Federal Trade Commission is looking into possible Microsoft violations of antitrust laws. At issue is whether the company's role as supplier of both operating systems (the basic programs that make a computer work) and applications software (the programs that do word processing, calculating and other jobs) gives it an unfair advantage. More than 80% of all personal computers use the company's DOS, while an additional 3% use OS/2. One rival, Go Corp., charges that Microsoft swiped its idea for a software...
Another of Tsongas's proposed incentives to increase R & D is the relaxation of antitrust laws to provide for a greater freedom in joint ventures. This idea has been a long time in reaching popular politics, but many free market economists have been advocating it for years. Such a plan would allow businesses with little extra capital but a few great ideas to join with their wealthier brethren to compete in the international marketplace...