Word: sawyerism
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...Fresh Appraisal. Bergson had gone after small companies before (e.g., part of Philadelphia's live fish industry). But his major strategy had caused even such Administration stalwarts as Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer to worry, with Charlie Wilson and other businessmen, about the effect of antitrust's attacks on the U.S. economy. As chairman of a Cabinet-level committee which includes the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission chairman, Sawyer had sought for months to "clarify" vague antitrust procedures', so far with little success...
Secretary Sawyer was convinced that the measurement of corporations should not be their size, but their efficiency in providing better goods at lower prices. "Public policy," said he last week in a speech before the Harvard Business School Association in Boston, "should continue to favor the development ... of limited advantages" for companies which develop new and better products. He had no fears of diminishing competition. "Those who claim that competition does not exist between giant firms," he said, "do not know what they are talking about. The competition which goes on between large business organizations is as real...
...Little Lord Fauntleroy. 2. Tom Sawyer. 3. Peter Pan. 4. Prince Arthur. 5. Adolescent in Member of the Wedding...
...inference, Sawyer attacked this approach to maintaining competition...
...Sawyer maintained that "when consumers can choose freely between alternative sellers, each seller has an incentive to offer his customers more for their money and consumers are protected against high prices and monopolistic exploitation...