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Shortly after the CSPIRG study??s release, national legislators called on the General Accounting Office (GAO) to launch an investigation of publishers, ensuring that they were not engaging in price fixing or other dubious acts to keep costs high for students. CSPIRG’s report, “Ripoff 101: How the Current Practices of the Textbook Industry Drive Up the Cost of College Textbooks,” also led to hearings this summer before a subcommittee of the U.S. House Education Committee...
...Barrett, a spokesperson for Wisconsin—whose CEO alums include Exxon Mobil’s Lee F. Raymond, Halliburton’s David J. Lesar, Exelon’s John Rowe and Kimberly-Clark’s Thomas Falk—said he was not surprised by the study??s findings...
...spokesperson from the Office of News and Public Affairs declined comment on the study??s findings...
...telephone interview with The Crimson yesterday, MPAA President and CEO Jack Valenti called the study “deeply flawed” and assailed the study??s proposal that a standardized, universal rating system be used for movies, television, video games and music...
...study??s findings were published in the December 2003 issue of Nature...