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...second concerned payments to prevent firms from designing hardware around AMD chips: Intel paid PC makers to delay or scrap the launch of new computers containing their rival's products. "Intel limited consumer choice and stifled innovation by preventing innovative products for which there was a consumer demand from reaching end customers," the Commission said...
...While Intel does not deny its rebate program, it argues that consumers were more helped than hurt from a price perspective. "Regulations should not prevent one company, no matter how large that company is, from offering discounts or providing incentives," said Intel General Counsel Bruce Sewell. He also noted that AMD, "the sole complainant in this case, is alive, healthy, and claims to be expanding its business...
...Nixon, who is also director of the Center of Excellence on Brain Aging at New York University Langone Medical Center. And if this screen can inform more people about their risk of developing dementia - and encourage younger folks to start taking precautions early - perhaps they will be able to prevent the disorder from occurring in the first place...
...current President, the torture memos at the center of the hearing are only part of the growing interrogation controversy. After taking heat over the right to release the memos, Obama now faces flak from the left over his decision to try to prevent the release of new photos showing prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan. The White House had previously indicated that it would not contest an earlier federal appeals court ruling, in a case brought by the ACLU, that the images should be released. But now, citing national security and the safety of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan...
...original version of the story said the Sagebrush Rebellion was an attempt to prevent a Federal takeover of public land. It was, rather, a movement to force the federal government to give up existing control of public land to state and local government...