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...makers of brand-name products. It's a microcosm of a divisive and peculiarly European debate: How low should retail prices be allowed to go? Predatory pricing - selling below cost to drive competitors out of business - is illegal everywhere, including in the U.S. But many European nations also heavily restrict or ban outright the promotions and discount prices that are standard practice in America, usually in the name of protecting consumers or competitors. Eight of the 15 E.U. members outlaw "loss leaders" - the sale of products below their cost price - a tactic designed to tempt consumers into the store...
...provider in search of the product they want, there is simply no room on the radio dial for startup or breakaway radio stations to form should an existing monopoly alienate the consumer. As such, it is entirely reasonable for the government to regulate this commodity and restrict consolidation in this industry...
...German arms merchant who illegally sold a giant drill to Iraq in 1999 has left a gaping hole in Germany's efforts to restrict the export of sensitive military-use technology. A Mannheim court last week sentenced Bernd Schompeter, 59, to five years and three months in jail after ruling that he had broken an export embargo with the drill, which can be used to manufacture cannon capable of firing chemical or nuclear weapons. It also handed a suspended sentence to Willi Heinz Ribbeck, 53, a sales manager at the machinery company that made the drill. The convictions embarrass Germany...
...China the pro game has advanced to the point where a player with a few games of NBA experience might prosper?but won't dominate. CBA rules restrict each team's foreign players to a total of five quarters of playing time per game. Usually, one foreigner plays the entire game and the other joins him for the final 12 minutes, but the Tigers are so far ahead by the end of three periods that they sit both of their Americans...
...person vans restrict the places Harvard’s volunteers will be able to travel, said Steven R. Griffin, a PBHA employee who coordinates van mainteance and teaches students how to drive the vans...