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...Northern Ireland, Merlyn Rees-the man responsible for maintaining peace in the province -called the murders "the worst single sectarian killing in Ulster history." Rees was immediately pushed to take action to halt the terrorism and restore confidence in the government's ability to maintain security. Glen Barr, a spokesman for the Ulster Defense Association, warned that Protestant paramilitary groups are under "intense pressure" from the rank and file to go on an all-out military offensive against...
...Pamela Barr, cello, and Randall Hodgkinson, piano, play Bach, Beethoven, Boccherini, Haydn. Ellot Library...
...vexing problem of antitrust law: how to define what "market" is involved. Raymond Carlson, 52, the Justice Department's chief lawyer for the case, contends that IBM controls a dominant 70% of the market for general-purpose computers and related equipment. IBM lawyers, led by Manhattan Attorney Thomas Barr, 44, and former Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, reply that the true market in which the company competes is the much broader one for all kinds of electronic data-processing equipment, and that in any case a 70% share has not constituted a monopoly in previous cases...
Another issue:. How did IBM achieve its pre-eminent position? The Government says it used predatory tactics. Barr retorted in court last week that the company's success resulted simply from "better products, greater productive efficiency, better service, right judgments about the future at key periods of time and the willingness [of management] to back those judgments." To support its claim that its triumphs have been based on quality, IBM is likely to call as witnesses purchasing agents of its biggest (between $4 billion and $6 billion annually) customer: the U.S. Government itself...
...four outside directors of the 3M Co., including two former Cabinet members -onetime Treasury Secretary Joseph Barr and former Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson -summoned the company's president to an urgent meeting. Barr put a startling question...