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...proceeded to tell Sarah McClendon just that. "I would say that the term you've used to describe them is a very strong term, which I would think that you should be prepared to substantiate." He hoped, added Kennedy, that the two men could perform their jobs "without detriment to their characters by your question...
...charge that great banking power is being concentrated in a few hands to the detriment of business and the public, the Justice Department has been particularly eager to prevent several proposed bank mergers. In Chicago and New York City, Bobby Kennedy's trustbusters have puffed into courts in last-minute and futile attempts to block such mergers. Despite their defeats, trustbusters had high hopes of winning a meticulously prepared suit against a Philadelphia bank merger. That merger would create the city's biggest bank, linking the Philadelphia National (now second largest with assets of $1.2 billion...
Others argued that the change in name would do little if anything to deter those who might use it to the detriment of the organization, and said proper election of council officers and reservation of the right of impeachment are more important than a name change. One student called the name "Innocuous" and said if the student council really means it is as "Innocuous" a body as the new name implies, then there is no reason for its continued existence...
...investor in an agency has the right to know the facts. The agency as the recipient of public funds has the duty to disclose fully to those who invest in its activities . . The predominant desire of the agencies too frequently is for self-aggrandizement and self-perpetuation to the detriment of overriding public interests. It does not take over 100,000 voluntary agencies ... to provide private health and welfare services...
...said Federal District Judge J. Cullen Ganey, were "a shocking indictment of a vast section of our economy." They were more than that. They showed clearly that the executives of a mighty industry, publicly devoted to the concept of competition, had privately conspired to rig prices to the detriment of their customers on a scale so vast that it embraced everything from the Tennessee Valley Authority to the private utilities that supply the nation's light and power...