Word: william
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reported by William Tynan/New York
...With reporting by Julie Grace/Waterford Township and William Tynan/New York
...were blessed (and sometimes cursed) with products that were mass-produced based on standardized designs, mass-marketed through new forms of mass media and spewed forth in cookie-cutter form from big factories and studios. This included not only consumer goods like Ford's cars, but everything from William Levitt's suburban homes to David Sarnoff's nationally broadcast shows to Ray Kroc's Big Macs. Mass production made all sorts of stuff, from toothpaste to TVs, more affordable, but it also led to a certain conformity. And because of economies of scale, it had a centralizing effect: power shifted...
...that the competitive landscape has shifted, should the court even bother to continue? Microsoft, not surprisingly, says no. Chief counsel William Neukom declared that the Netscape deal "yanks the rug out from the government's case" by proving that the Internet is more competitive than ever. As soon as the feds finish their case, Neukom's team will ask Judge Jackson--one more time--for summary dismissal. Said David Boies, the Department of Justice's lead attorney: "[That's] the sixth time that Microsoft has pronounced the government's case dead...
...deal hasn't dampened the government's confidence, it does make one aspect of the trial more problematic: the remedy. The DOJ could argue, as Georgetown law professor William Kovacic puts it, that "the lawsuit was the catalyst for this deal--it gave the companies some breathing room." In that case, Jackson may decide that that's all the relief they really need. After all, the trial is slow enough. Punishment shouldn't take forever...