Word: bork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Antitrust is one of the battlegrounds upon which the future of capitalism is being fought out." -Former Solicitor General Robert Bork, at last week's TIME conference...
Still, Robert Bork, now a Yale law professor, contended that Kennedy-Metzenbaum is symptomatic of a new anti-bigness mentality in the highest reaches of Government. Though most conference participants felt that large companies compete as ferociously and fairly as small firms, they were told by Economist Walter Adams of Michigan State University that antitrust has political as well as economic elements. Said he: "The objective of antitrust is not to promote efficiency and consumer welfare. These are only ancillary benefits that are expected to flow from economic freedom. The primary purpose of antitrust is to perpetuate and preserve...
...charged with trying to force customers to buy entire IBM systems for commercial use, and with keeping competitors out of the market. A decade later U.S. vs. IBM is still droning on, a costly monument to the law's delay. The frustrating case, Yale Professor Robert Bork told TIME'S conference, is the antitrust division's "Viet Nam." Thomas Barr, the Cravath, Swaine & Moore attorney who is leading the IBM defense, explained at the meeting why he sees no light at the end of the tunnel...
...Bork said Fuhrmann mentioned the increased difficulty in obtaining witnesses to war crimes so long after the war and the large number of people who have already been tried as reasons for allowing the statute...
...However, Bork said many people have not yet been tried. "People should be brought to trial to show that a person doesn't undertake that kind of effort (participation in war crimes) without facing consequences," she added...