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...decades, a group of 23 Ivy League universities and competitive colleges known as the "overlap group" met to discuss admissions and financial aid each spring at Wellesley, but the Justice Department charged that these meetings constituted a conspiracy to shield college tuition from competitive pressures...
...overlap schools settled with the Justice Department and eight years later, they continue not to speak to each other about specific financial aid offers...
...overlap schools can now only discuss information in the public domain, she says, and are "really paranoid," bringing attorneys to meetings...
...because the original DNA has been torn into so many random bits of genetic gibberish (as opposed to the predictable fragments made by gene-cutting enzymes), scientists need powerful computers to determine where the tiny fragments overlap. This is tough enough when you're sequencing a small part of a chromosome. But now Smith urged Venter to try it out, not merely on a strip of DNA but on an entire genome. He proposed Haemophilus influenzae, a bacterium that causes ear infections and meningitis. Until then, only a few small viruses, whose genomes had tens of thousands of genetic letters...
...price-cutting competitor gets vanquished. And International Paper's stock looks that much better, knowing it won't have to compete with Union Camp. Both companies can strip sales, marketing and technology spending out of the budgets of their prey. It is remarkable how much duplication and overlap can exist among competitors, enabling both companies to pay substantial premiums over what the marketplace was willing to pay for the stand-alone entities...