Word: questioned
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...fundamental question returns to this: are the elite universities the ones to judge if they are above the point of the anti-trust laws, i.e. promoting fair and open competition to serve the public...
...immediate legal problem can be seen in an analogy to gas stations. Say the stations with the best gas in town all decide on gas prices, and also on the discount they give preferred (even "needy") customers. Further, the practice raises the question of whether the service station owners fix the wages of their attendants, or the price for accessories like windshield wipers. The practice may benefit customers and workers; it may not. But it is clearly illegal...
...ballot question would allow some people living in rent-controlled housing to purchase their apartments after living there for two or more years. Although supporters have said the referendum will give people who otherwise could not afford homes the opportunity to own them, opponents contend that 1-2-3 will deplete the stock of affordable housing...
...added that in the last five years, art history has begun to question traditional assumptions about art, drawing on the strength of disciplines around it. "The kind of questions I work with are often more familiar in other disciplines like literature and film criticism...
...companies may have little choice. While the House subcommittee did not take up the question of alternative fuels last week, it is expected to do so this month. On the table is a White House proposal that would require automakers to start selling cars that run on gasoline substitutes by 1995. Car companies would be told to produce 500,000 such vehicles the first year and 1 million units a year beginning in 1997. Among possible substitutes: methanol, a high-octane alcohol derived from wood; ethanol, or "gasohol," a blend of gasoline and grain alcohol; and compressed natural...