Word: antitrusters
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...umpire with one thumb hooked in the air and the other hand spread out, saying, "You probably should be out, but you're safe, I think, kind of." For the third time in 50 years, the Supreme Court was considering major league baseball's exemption from the antitrust laws. In 1922 Oliver Wendell Holmes had stated for a unanimous court that baseball was not engaged in interstate commerce and therefore was not covered by antitrust regulations. Last week Justice Harry Blackmun held that baseball is, of course, engaged in interstate commerce in the modern meaning of that term...
...Blackmun: "There is merit in consistency, even though some might claim that beneath that consistency is a layer of inconsistency." The original ruling, he observed, had been upheld only nine years ago in a finding that "Congress had no intention of including the business of baseball within the federal antitrust laws." If any change is indicated, said Blackmun, "the remedy is for congressional, and not judicial action." Chief Justice Burger agreed and went further to urge, "It is time the Congress acted...
...severity of the sentence was one reason for the unusual interest in the case. Another was that Miss Blalock countered with a $5,000,000 antitrust suit against the L.P.G.A., claiming that the association had deprived her of a living, had damaged her reputation and good will, and had not permitted her to face her accusers at a hearing or have legal counsel...
Having written background papers for Congressional candidates two years ago, Roberts is familiar with this work. He also teaches courses on both the environment and antitrust policy. "I want to learn how people conceive of the issues outside of academia and I'm very interested in the policy-making process," he said. "So this is a very educational opportunity...
...recently bemoaned "the tendency of some in the media-not all, but some in the media-constantly to emphasize the negative." White House Speechwriter Patrick Buchanan told a television interviewer that a few networks, newspapers and newsmagazines were guilty of an anti-Administration "monopoly of ideas." He talked about "antitrust-type action" if the offenders continue to "freeze out opposing points of view." On Meet the Press, Presidential Adviser John Ehrlichman complained about young journalists intent on "salting away in their reporting on facts their own personal points of view." Patrick Gray, just before his appointment as acting director...