Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the companies settled the case without admitting any guilt. Each signed an FTC consent order in which it agreed not to indulge in any of the alleged antitrust practices. One clause forbids the collusive setting of auto-rental rates. Another bars any effort to persuade airport authorities to write into concession contracts requirements that smaller companies cannot meet...
Bribery at Home? When the wave of slush-fund and payoff scandals began to break, he also developed the idea of consent agreements. His bright young staff-average age is under 30-would collect evidence of wrongdoing and confront the companies with it. Then the corporations would continue the probe under SEC supervision, using untainted directors, lawyers and accountants to do the work. In the Gulf Oil case, the guilty company spent $3.5 million on its investigation...
Kreidler believes his ancestors, if alive today, would "probably be conservative Republicans without being mossbacks. In the beginning, they didn't favor independence, but they did favor firm resistance to encroachments-to being taxed without consent." He also conjectures that his ancestors would not want to hold political office today because it is a full-time occupation. "The problem with Congress is that it's run by professional politicians who are out of touch with the country. They are not like the citizen legislators the country had in the beginning...
ships of war] without the consent of our legislatures...
...without our consent; for depriving us in many cases of the benefits...