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...loss when the effect is to drive out competitors. The Government's decade-long antitrust case against IBM was dropped in January 1982, but a few industry executives, including Apple's Jobs and Benjamin Rosen, chairman of Compaq, are beginning to talk openly about another one. Says Parren Mitchell, chairman of the House Small Business Committee: "Sooner or later, someone is going to complain to the committee about...
...only the fourth time in U.S. history, we are redefining the role of the government and the economy," and the "problem is that Blacks don't know how they will fare," Rep. Parren J. Mitchell (D-Md.) told a Business School audience Saturday...
...President Lane Kirkland says that the proposed budget "may have psychological value for the bond market and for bankers" but "places most of the burden on those suffering worst under the present economic conditions." The Congressional Black Caucus, a group of 17 Representatives, is no less worried. Representative Parren Mitchell, of Baltimore, has advised his fellow blacks to use every parliamentary tactic available to block budget cuts that would hurt their constituents, such as reductions in job-training programs and aid to cities. Says Mitchell: "The President has got to run the risk of losing another whole block of votes...
...case, called Fullilove vs. Kreps, focuses on a 1977 federal law authorizing grants to local governments for public projects with $4 billion to be allocated by Dec. 31, 1978. Noting that minority-controlled companies had been getting only 1% of all Government contracts, Maryland Democrat Parren Mitchell proposed an amendment guaranteeing such firms 10% of the $4 billion. The amendment passed, to the distress of the construction industry. All told, 27 suits were filed charging that the 10% set-aside was unconstitutional. Fullilove, the case that the Supreme Court chose to hear, was brought by H. Earl Fullilove and other...
...federal level than might be expected. "People are taking hold of whatever handles they can find," said New York Republican Congressman Barber Conable, "but it's very difficult to get hold of the handles of the Federal Government." That did not ease the fears of Maryland Democratic Congressman Parren Mitchell, leader of the Congressional Black Caucus, that social services will be cut most sharply by the economy knives. Mitchell predicted that "every single human-resources program is going to be in danger. Medicare and Medicaid, welfare, the jobs programs...