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...best, it'll be 1985 before a change in the IBM market structure is finally ordered," says one Washington attorney, "and by that time, the markets will have changed dramatically, maybe making the restructuring irrelevant." For that reason alone, many computer-industry experts forecast another face-saving consent decree, to be negotiated by the Government -a solution that would leave IBM intact and dominant in the industry...
...Midwest Enforcement Director James McDonald calls the consent decree a "monumental first" that will help the agency in bargaining with other companies and communities (including the city of Detroit) that resist its decrees. Says McDonald: "We are going to be very ties." firm One and seek indication of the substantial penal agency's hard line: before the consent decree, it had begun proceedings to make...
...contrast, the stiff cost of the consent decree was a small price...
What impact will the decision have? In theory, it could lead to the reopening of big job-discrimination cases already settled by consent decree, such as those involving AT&T and big U.S. steelmakers. All have moved decisively to upgrade blacks and other minorities. But no organized group is likely to challenge those programs, and companies and unions will probably keep them intact, for public relations reasons if no others...
...Administration's standard for judging a price rise will be the adequacy of a company's profit margins. Major aluminum manufacturers recently raised prices with the Administration's tacit consent after demonstrating that their long-term costs were rising...