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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 argue forcefully that at a time when the U.S. faces increasing competition from government-backed rivals overseas, American corporations need size and financial muscle to survive and prosper. While AT&T does not face competition...
Buckley, it was pointed out, circulated the amendment to his Senate colleagues four days before it was adopted on the Senate floor--with no debate. There were no hearings in committee session to weigh its merits or hammer out its wording. Fact is, as higher-ups around Mass Hall tell it, Buckley himself knew few details of the rider when contacted several days after its passage...
Such stuff we expect to find in front page news. Sports pages, we protest, are reserved for such weighty matters as tabulations of shots-on-goal, comparisons of probable starting pitchers, or analyses of what makes the star athlete tick. When inflation, taxes and homicides weigh too heavily on the reader's mind, sports provide relief...
...festive occasion that was Madison Square Garden in 1971 had become serious business for Ali's legions in 1974. After all, the Man is 32, he did weigh in at 216.7 pounds, ten or so more than he promised...
...astronomers. A neutron star is a bizarre object. It is formed when a giant star exhausts its nuclear fuel and collapses inward on itself, crushing much of its matter into a ball of neutrons some ten miles in diameter-but so dense that a thimbleful of it would weigh millions of tons on earth. Scientists theorize that the neutron star spins rapidly, causing its intense magnetic field to interact with ionized gases surrounding it. This results in a "beacon" of radio waves that periodically sweeps past the earth, producing the regularly spaced pulses...