Word: tenet
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...merging companies to the Justice Department for approval, and also said he might allow Microsoft to request additional documents from AOL and Netscape to assist in its defense. "It is a major victory for Microsoft," says TIME technology writer Chris Taylor. "But nothing has changed in the central tenet of the government's case, which is that Microsoft illegally used its operating system to leverage itself into other software markets...
...against Spanish citizens in Argentina, which were linked to Chile by a scheme called Operation Condor. With this plan, Pinochet and other South American junta leaders pooled their deadliest secret-police units to crush resistance to their rule. Garzon concluded that Pinochet is not covered by the traditional legal tenet, called sovereign immunity, one aspect of which protects national leaders from prosecution. Garzon argues that it does not apply because murder and torture are not legitimate parts of a head of government's job. Britain's Law Lords agreed, and Home Secretary Jack Straw has until Dec. 11 to decide...
...perhaps no surprise that in such an intensely competitive business, some of the newer private banks are running into trouble. Citibank was only one of several private banks that, according to investigators, could have more strictly observed a central tenet that private bankers call KYC. It stands for "Know Your Customer...
Unfortunately for Microsoft, the patient isn't even bleeding. Bill Gates' famously evasive testimony and the parade of Microsoft's victims have hurt the company, at least in the eyes of the press. But the case's central tenet--that Microsoft illegally leveraged its operating-systems monopoly--still stands, whatever AOL does with Netscape. Even before the $4.2 billion buyout was announced, government economist Frederick Warren-Boulton was framing it as more evidence of Microsoft's strong-arming. "Netscape has been forced to the wall," he said. "That's an unfortunate outcome of what Microsoft has been doing." Touche...
...basic tenet of Ec 10 is that free market competition makes for cheaper and better products, but in the textbook industry, Coop competitors don't offer a much better deal...