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...beachhead in the fast-growing field of electronic commerce. There were grumblings, of course, about antitrust, but hardly anyone seemed to think they would lead anywhere. After all, the Department of Justice's antitrust division had just wrapped up a four-year federal investigation of Microsoft by negotiating a consent decree that the industry viewed as little more than a slap on the wrist...
...deal did not go through as planned. Last week, three days after the government took Microsoft's side in court on an appeal related to the consent decree, the Justice Department filed suit to block the Microsoft-Intuit merger. The $2 billion deal, government antitrust lawyers argued, would reduce competition, raise software prices and dampen innovation...
...cited the University's decision two decades ago to build the Medical Area Total Energy Plant--which he said has cost FAS approximately $500 million in today's terms--as an example of FAS's contribution to projects without its consent...
...strange kind of ratchet that would require consent of the people of the Commonwealth as a whole before a locality may impose rent control, but then that would foreclose, in the name of local autonomy, that same general authority from thinking better of it and withdrawing the consent," Fried wrote in the April 29, 1994 brief...
...state law, the City Council must approve the budget within 45 days, or by May 24. The new budget is schedule to take effect July 1. The council has the authority to make reductions in the proposed budget, but cannot make increases without the city manager's consent...