Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cement industry's basing-point price case five years ago. the Federal Trade Commission ruled-and the Supreme Court agreed-that the "parallel business behavior" of the cement companies in issuing identical price lists for their products was ample evidence of illegal conspiracy to restrain trade. But last week, in a decision that might set a far-reaching precedent, the Supreme Court had a change of heart...
...ones. In showing the creative role of large business organizations, he insisted that what looks at any moment like restraint of trade may be necessary for the encouragement of competition, as it has actually functioned in the economy. In most industries, Schumpeter concluded, practices which appear to restrain trade in the short run tend to promote dynamic advance in the long...
...must also be ready to strike with "the most fearsome of our weapons." In discussing the morality of employing atomic or thermonuclear weapons, Seitz indulges in none of the hand-wringing that scientists often display in the pages of the Bulletin. It would be immoral, he says, "not to restrain Soviet aggression by any means which will be effective...
...closely followed the practice but not the preachment of their parents. Three-fifths of the men and one-third of the women drank although ordered not to by their parents. About 70 percent of the students ignored church instructions to abstain, while around 85 percent who were told to restrain themselves by their school teachers drank anyway...
...frowning at the new Zahedi Cabinet; they complain that its few able, honest men are outweighed by many unproven ones and a scattering of ministers whose honesty and objectives are, to say the least, questionable. "Perhaps," said one Iranian, "there are enough honest men in the Cabinet to restrain the dishonest ones...