Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many businessmen are already mired in time-consuming antitrust cases. The Justice Department is pressing monumental cases to break up IBM and AT&T, and the FTC is doing the same in a suit against Exxon and seven other oil companies. It is unlikely that the FTC suit will come to trial much before the 21st century, by which time the Government expects oil to play a diminishing role in the nation's economy...
...Government has never spelled out just how it wants to break up IBM to foster competition. Any "relief that the court eventually may grant must be based on up-to-date information. So last January-ironically on the tenth anniversary of the case-the Government made yet another discovery request for current information and IBM's plans for the future. IBM is resisting; it argues that this third round of discovery would bare its trade secrets, and further delay the trial...
Before the period ended, Doug Risebrough, wearing a protective face mask because of a broken jaw suffered during the semifinals against Boston, finished off a 3-on-2 break by beating Davidson to the far side...
...vital area of economic policy, which she rightly judges will make or break her government, Thatcher will rely heavily on very trusted aides who share Joseph's fiscal views. Sir Geoffrey Howe, 52, a former left-wing Tory long since converted to tight money and tax cuts, became Chancellor of the Exchequer. John Nott, 47, a tough Cornishman once fired by Heath as too inflexible, became Secretary for Trade and Prices. John Biffen, 48, a deceptively shy but zealous right-wing purist and nationalistic opponent of the Common Market, was named Chief Secretary of the Treasury, in effect, director...
...citizenry's essential interest is not in knowledge per se but the social uses to which it is put. What is often kept from the citizen, in the form of knowledge, is social and political power. When demonstrations and controversies break out over seemingly esoteric technical questions, the underlying question, as Cornell University's Dorothy Nelkin puts it in a paper on "Science as a Source of Political Conflict," is always the same: "Who should control crucial policy choices?" Such choices, she adds, tend to stay in the hands of those who control "the context of facts...