Word: bells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Derrick A. Bell Jr., professor of Law, has threatened to resign if the Law School does not substantially increase its efforts to hire minority faculty...
...Bell, who is the only black professor at the Law School, put the threat in a confidential letter to his colleagues last month...
...Bell confirmed yesterday that he sent the letter, but refused to discuss its contents...
Setting the Stage. The Bell action does not foreshadow a broad antitrust drive against corporations in concentrated industries. Justice's hard-pressed, 370-member antitrust staff is scarcely able to handle the few big league cases it already has underway: the Bell case, the six-year-old suit to break up IBM, and investigations of price hikes by oil and sugar firms...
Whatever its outcome, the Bell suit will surely set the stage for a renewed debate about the proper aims of modern antitrust policy. Not even the Justice Department accuses A T & T of behaving in the ruthless style of the freewheeling monopolies that were broken up under the Sherman Act 60 years ago. As the lingering notion that "bigness is badness" has faded, the nation has tolerated increasing concentration in many industries. The question that overlies virtually every antitrust effort today is how to weigh the admitted advantages of competition against the economics of scale in any given field. Businessmen...