Word: divestment
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...Debatable. The decision is one of the broadest-and most debatable-ever made with regard to antitrust laws. The FTC has long worried about the increasing concentration in the food-merchandising industry. In earlier decisions it ordered three of the largest U.S. dairy chains, Foremost, Borden and Beatrice, to divest themselves of small companies they had acquired. It recently ordered Grand Union Stores to get rid of nine stores, and Consolidated Foods to spin off three chains as well as a dairy and a bakery; it is still investigating the Kroger Co. for 42 chain-store acquisitions dating...
...votes ahead of Goldwater in his campaign last year. "I am the kind of conservative who believes change is necessary to preserve freedom," he said. "We must divest ourselves of confusing labels and turn our attention to problems of human needs and goals...
...discouraging degree of sameness." Commission investigators have been busy pinpointing the power over TV programming held by what the industry calls "the three men": ABC's Tom Moore, NBC's Bob Kintner, and until last week, CBS's Jim Aubrey. The FCC's Draconian cure: divest the big three of half their prime programming time (7-11 p.m., E.S.T.), hand the task over to sponsors and independents...
...Supreme Court ruling that held that Du Font's ownership of G.M. stock violated the anti-trust laws. Getting rid of the shares under a court order, Du Pont has already given its stockholders .86 share of G.M. for every share of Du Pont held, is due to divest itself by February of all its G.M. stock, most of which it bought as an investment between 1917 and 1935 for $130 million (present worth: $6 billion...
...fiercest infighting in memory. At week's end Hailsham was the delegates' hero, and had already been offered four constituencies by their obliging members, but he irritated many parliamentary leaders by his bulldozer tactics. Moreover, there is little likelihood that Hailsham will be able to divest himself of his title and be elected for two months; at week's end the London bookies were laying 7 to 4 against his becoming Prime Minister. Maudling (6 to 1 against), who appeared doubtful that the Tories can win in any case, not unhappily began to fade as a serious...