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...Justice Department's spare, 15-page complaint charged AT&T with violating the Sherman Act by monopolizing much of U.S. telecommunications. The trustbusters' main goal: to force A T & T to sell off Western Electric, the wholly owned manufacturing subsidiary that plays a key role in A T & T's unique position in American business...
Whatever its outcome, the Bell suit will surely set the stage for a renewed debate about the proper aims of modern antitrust policy. Not even the Justice Department accuses A T & T of behaving in the ruthless style of the freewheeling monopolies that were broken up under the Sherman Act 60 years ago. As the lingering notion that "bigness is badness" has faded, the nation has tolerated increasing concentration in many industries. The question that overlies virtually every antitrust effort today is how to weigh the admitted advantages of competition against the economics of scale in any given field. Businessmen...
...when Lincoln, Sherman and company found it in their hearts and guns to bring freedom to black male America...
...jail" is a common command in the ever-popular game Monopoly. But in the real world, businessmen who break antitrust laws are hardly ever put behind bars; only 38 violators of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act have been sentenced to jail in that law's 84-year history. Now that situation could be changing. As part of its struggle against the nation's roaring inflation, the Ford Administration has announced plans for a sweeping new assault against anticompetitive practices, including price-fixing conspiracies and agreements between companies not to sell in each other's prime market areas...
After the ball had changed hands several times in the opening period, the Bruins got their first scoring opportunity when Brown defender Mike Sherman snagged at midfield a misdirected aerial from Crimson quarterback Steve O'Brien...