Word: baxters
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Assistant Attorney General William Baxter said of the case against the companies, "There just wasn't anything there." The Government's case seemed to weaken with time. The Saudis refused to allow the four oil companies to disclose information about Saudi oil production. For another, the companies after 1973 increasingly took their production orders from the Saudis. In fact, 1977 was possibly the last year that the oil companies could have influenced the price of oil by regulating the Saudi supply. In any case, Baxter noted that Saudi oil production has fallen to 5 million bbl. daily from...
...spirit of antitrust legislation. Yet the plan appeared to be legal For the record, the Newhouse chain was compelled to offer the Globe-Democrat for sale last week, and the Justice Department then obtained the names of more than a dozen potential buyers. Assistant Attorney General William Baxter stipulated: "If one or more satisfactory expressions of interest are received before 5:30 p.m. on Nov 22, a reasonable opportunity will be provided by Newhouse and Pulitzer to negotiate the purchase of the Globe-Democrat before it is discontinued." A sale, however, would place the newspaper outside the joint operating agreement...
...predecessor: "The suit was a tremendous cloud that was over the company for 13 years. It couldn't help influencing us in a whole variety of ways. Ending it lifted a huge burden from management's shoulders." Jeffrey Zuckerman, special assistant to Antitrust Division Chief William Baxter, concurs: "We believe IBM must have been deterred from competing as aggressively as it otherwise would have...
Putnam broke no law by making the recording. It is legal in Texas, and many other states, for one party in a telephone conversation to record it without letting the other party know. William Baxter, the Justice Department's antitrust chief, let it be known last week that he thinks company bosses should always record their phone conversations with other company bosses. That would make it harder, reasoned Baxter, to try to fix prices over the phone. Many businessmen found the idea absurd. Could wired golf carts and bugged swizzle sticks be far behind? -By John S. DeMott. Reported...
With average mortgage rates at just under 14%, the lowest level in 27 months, there has been a revival of home sales and construction. "Everybody's encouraged because sales are increasing and the phones are ringing," says Ray Baxter, president of the Houston Board of Realtors; home sales there increased 24% last month over December...