Word: cartelizing
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...subtleties of U.S. antitrust policy were largely lost on the cartel-minded Europeans, who are used to far less severe trustbusting, if any at all. Die Welt of Hamburg voiced suspicion that the U.S. market is a closed shop to Europe. In Britain, which has never refused a U.S. oil company's application to enter its markets, the reaction was especially bitter. Some members of Parliament hinted at retaliation against U.S. business in Britain. Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart protested to Secretary of State William Rogers...
...striking feature of Brandt's team is its relative youth in a land where "Opa"?grandpa?was long presumed to know best. Ever since the trauma of the Nazi atrocities and World War II, Germans have shouldered a heavy burden of guilt?their "cartel...
...companies that chose to fight -American Standard, Kohler and Borg-Warner-were accused of conspiring to boost the prices of bathroom fixtures, collectively regulating trade discounts and agreeing to drop cheaper lines. The charges held that an informal cartel operated from...
...romanticism. In Giraudoux, as in Anouilh, there is also an elegance of manner, a fencing master's play of the intellect, and a sense of historical irony of which few Broadway adapters have the remotest inkling. In Madwoman, Giraudoux conceived of a vicious, filthy-rich, top-hatted capitalist cartel that discovers oil under a bistro called the Chez François and is prepared to desecrate all of Paris to pan for the black gold. But the eccentric owner of the cafe, the Countess Aurelia (Angela Lansbury), thwarts these evil malefactors of great wealth. With...
...economic planning. What promoted the move more than anything else was a feud between Montedison's Valerio and Eugenio Cefis, 47, boss of ENI. Cefis was convinced that Italian firms, in order to fare better in foreign markets, had to "coordinate" their sales abroad in a kind of cartel arrangement. Valerio seemed more interested in competing. Cefis, whose obsessive secrecy has won him the appellation "the Ghost," decided to team up with I.R.I, and go after Montedison. His decision had the government's enthusiastic support...