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...with any large merger, the Time-Warner deal will be reviewed by the Government to see if it poses any antitrust or other regulatory problems. The only major overlap between the two companies is that they are both big operators of local cable-TV systems. After the merger, Time Warner will serve 5.6 million customers, or 12% of U.S. households with cable. The new operation will still be smaller than the largest cable company, Tele-Communications, which serves 24% of the industry's customers. Experts say that unless President Bush takes a tougher antitrust stance than the Reagan Administration...
...tried to spur the fledgling U.S. Football League into full competition with the powerful National Football League. Trump not only invested heavily in college stars like Herschel Walker and Doug Flutie (who cost him $5 million or more) but also persuaded the league to sue the N.F.L. for antitrust violations. One league member recalls Trump saying that "everything he had been involved with had been successful, and he would be damned if the U.S.F.L. was going to be his first failure." Trump's league sued the N.F.L. for $1.7 billion, won the verdict but received only a symbolic...
Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust. Even some big-time investment bankers are wincing at the turmoil created by the megamergers that took place under the Reagan Administration's relaxed custody of the antitrust laws. This prosecutor will have to decide if there is such a thing as a merger that is too big, and if so, how to chop it down to size...
...California insurance quake may soon draw the attention of Washington lawmakers. While virtually no politician wants the Federal Government to regulate insurance, a broad coalition of consumer and other groups has urged Congress to end an antitrust exemption that insurers have enjoyed since 1945. The groups say the repeal would promote competition and drive down rates. So far, the industry has easily turned back the challenge. "Auto-insurance prices are driven by underlying costs," argues David Farmer, vice president for federal affairs of the Alliance of American Insurers. Removing the exemption, he says, will do nothing to cut hospital bills...
...level down to 39%. Moreover, Kraft has products like Miracle Whip and Philadelphia Brand cream cheese that have taken up permanent residence in * American refrigerators. Since Kraft products do not compete with those made by Philip Morris' General Foods subsidiary, Philip Morris argues that the merger would pose no antitrust problems...