Word: shermans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...full extent of His Majesty's spoof becomes apparent only after examining the rationale of American antitrust law. The cornerstone of that framework, the Sherman Antitrust Act, does not prohibit monopoly per se and Sherman took great pains to point that out before Congress when debating the issue. Monopolies attained through continued innovation are totally legitimate. The law targets only those extended through predatory pricing, superfluous tie-ins and a handful of other shady practices that rely not on market merit but market power. Such monopolies invariably hurt the consumer, either by raising prices above the market level or destroying...
What do these thousands of facts add up to? More than likely an architectural blueprint for finding that Microsoft did indeed willfully and repeatedly violate the Sherman Antitrust Act. In their Friday-night spinathon, Microsoft's legal experts hastened to point out that this conclusion is not a certainty. In fact, the judge could still find that the mountains of incriminating evidence he laid out don't support a legal ruling against Microsoft...
...RealJukebox. Meanwhile, the company is undergoing an internal privacy-policy review, and an outside auditor will be brought in for a final seal of good privacy housekeeping. But right now, there's a log file somewhere in Seattle that has my name in it, as well as the Allan Sherman CDs that I've been playing, and that ticks me off. If a good company like Glaser's can go astray, who knows what the bad guys...
QUESTION 5: Before hitting the big time, your company must first overcome what obstacle to growth of epic proportions? A) The Sherman Anti-Trust Act; B) Barriers to entry set up by your roommate's competing firm; C) The Ad Board; D) All of the above...
...miked like a walking Radio Shack, attempting to bribe judges while antsy G-men tape the seductions from parked vans. The distinguished targets come from all walks of life and can be sympathetic inversions of stereotypes. Judge Barnett Skolnick is an elderly, good-natured dimwit who spouts stage Yiddish. Sherman Crowthers is a massively built black jurist who paralyzes attorneys with his battering intelligence. Exaggerated characters? Yes. Caricatures? Never...