Word: antitrusters
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...after three years of effort -are about to do the same with the Fed eral Bankruptcy Act. We have promulgated new rules of criminal procedure and evidence for the federal courts, expanded and extended the Voting Rights Act of 1965, initiated and passed the first major revision of antitrust laws in more than 25 years, and conducted two unprecedented constitutional inquiries under the 25th Amendment. We are now and have since 1973 been closely examining the very issue raised in your article-criminal code reform...
...took a poke at the oil companies, declaring: "I happen to believe in competition, and we don't have enough of it right now." He held out the threat of divestiture?a bull-baiting word among the big oil companies?if data he sought from the companies showed that antitrust laws were being flouted...
...Kissinger talked with reporters on a diplomatic shuttle, he was like a wise, witty potentate holding a levee for his courtiers. When Cyrus Vance unbends with newsmen on a mission abroad, it is more like a corporation lawyer at a court recess commenting discreetly on the intricacies of an antitrust case sub judice. TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden, who has traveled with both Secretaries of State, last week cabled this commentary on their differing styles...
When New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller asked Jones in 1970 to serve on the Public Service Commission because he was a well-known expert on antitrust and regulatory law, Jones agreed but only on condition that he could continue teaching at Columbia. But even while teaching, he also enrolled himself as a student in statistical techniques. Says he: "Mathematics is going to be an increasingly important part of legal development, and I do not wish to become obsolete." There is little danger of that, for Jones applies the same tactic to his teaching. Says he: "The largest part of teaching...
...Carter Administration reportedly considered naming Pitofsky to head the Federal Trade Commission but then counted him out, perhaps, says a colleague, because of his "professorial air." Though undeniably a professor-he teaches antitrust and consumer law-Pitofsky is certainly no stranger to the FTC, having served from 1970 to 1972 as chief of its Bureau of Consumer Protection. As a teacher, Pitofsky favors the adversary system. Assigning a pair of students to each side of a lawsuit, Pitofsky gives them 30 days to prepare their arguments and then grills them on the law. Law students, says Pitofsky...