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...final agreement to formalize the GM-Toyota linkup must still be signed, and it will surely be opposed by other U.S. automakers on antitrust grounds. Though few think that GM and Toyota would have embarked on lengthy negotiations without at least tacit approval from the Government to go ahead, one well-placed official is extremely skeptical that the deal will go through. Bargaining between the two companies consumed nearly a year and dragged on longer than GM expected. One major sticking point was resolved when Toyota apparently agreed to allow the new plant to be unionized by the United Auto...
...subject is clouded by some complex, tentative provisions of the settlement earlier this year of the Justice Department's antitrust suit against AT&T, which will lead to divestiture of its 22 operating subsidiaries early in 1984. Then ownership of the phones in customers' homes will revert to AT&T, and the local companies will be unable either to rent or sell them to customers. Thus the local companies are now under pressure to sell, so customers are being offered some attractive deals. That standard rotary-dial phone that New York Telephone now rents for $36.36 per year...
...course, should be able to fight for their own concerns, but the power of PACs has upset the delicate balance between private interests and the public good. Indeed, PAC victories-continued price supports for dairy farmers, the defeat of a proposed fee on commodity trades, a proposed exemption from antitrust laws for shipping companies-often come at taxpayer expense. "It is not surprising there are no balanced budgets," says Republican Jim Leach of Iowa, who is one of fewer than a dozen members of Congress who refuse to take PAC money...
More than a dozen other special-interest bills were barely quashed during the final hours. Among them: an act to exempt the maritime industry from antitrust laws, a reprieve for timber companies that hold $2 billion in unfulfilled federal contracts, an exemption that would allow beer distributors to set up local monopolies and an antitrust waiver for the National Football League. There was even a bill that would exempt Zeke's Floatin' Bait, which is manufactured by a company in La Canada Flintridge, Calif., from a 10% excise tax. Despite Metzenbaum's guard, a few yuletide goodies...
...college football game for each Sunday of the strike and invited individual universities to negotiate independently with ABC, CBS or Turner starting this week. Two weeks ago, in an Oklahoma court, the N.C.A.A.'s control of college football telecasts had been ruled a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The N.C.A.A. won a temporary stay, before all of a sudden turning into a flexible organization...