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...Justice to block the deal, claiming the merger will create a conglomerate that will shut out competition and lead to higher ticket prices. "This is deemed by many to be the first test case in the Obama Administration," said Marc Schildkraut, a former assistant director with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and now a partner at Howrey Simon Arnold & White...
...indeed weakened somewhat, agrees Gael Francais, a violin maker and dealer based in New York City whose family has been in the violin-making business since the 18th century. Francais and Margolis say the recession has limited the capital available to musicians shopping for tools of their trade. (Watch Jeremy Caplan's duet with...
...Washington Pollution and Politics On May 21, the American Clean Energy and Security Act--also known as the Waxman-Markey Bill, after its Democratic authors--passed through a House committee. If approved, the 1,000-page bill would institute the nation's first federal cap-and-trade system for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions...
...valuable public service by putting them on display. In today's troubled economic times, the role of the appointment-only museum is arguably growing in importance as consumers worldwide become desperate for bargains. Security experts with the Hong Kong-based consultancy Asia Risk recently estimated that international trade in counterfeit goods could rise to nearly $1 trillion in 2009. The business has long exceeded the value of the global narcotics trade...
...skip through the Counterfeit Museum is not about macabre trivia. In many cases, the global trade in fakes is a matter of life and death. Fake pharmaceutical drugs - their active ingredients either missing or present in insufficient volumes to be effective - are proving increasingly difficult to discern by IP investigators. "The technology used to copy holograms [on packaging] is so good now that manufacturers have to change them all the time," Gautier said. "It's difficult to stay in front." Gautier also explains that product-counterfeiting, as with legitimate industries, is frequently determined by geography, and some countries have developed...