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NHL players vote to authorize effort to dissolve their union
Members of the NHL Players’ Assn. have voted to authorize their executive board to dissolve the union, which would pave the way for players to file antitrust lawsuits against the NHL. Several people who are knowledgeable about the decision but are...
Tags: Politics, Elections, National Hockey League, National Hockey League Players' Association, Gary Bettman
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Marvin Miller dies at 95; baseball union chief led push for free agency
Nothing about Marvin Miller seemed feisty or controversial at first glance; the soft-spoken economist was a smallish man with gray hair and a tidy mustache. But as a union leader, it was Miller who took on baseball's establishment in the late 1960s,...Tags: Oakland Athletics, Hank Aaron, Liver Cancer, Arbitration, New York Yankees
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Goodlatte elected as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee
Congressman Bob Goodlatte has been elected to serve as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Goodlatte was elected to the post by the House Republican Conference. His chairmanship will start in January when the 113th Congress begins. “I...
Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, U.S. House of Representatives, Justice and Rights, Human Interest, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
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Gas price spikes disguise real problems with California market
Gasoline price spikes, such as the event that drove the average gallon in California to a stratospheric $4.67 in October, create two types of frustration. There's the immediate frustration of seeing the price at the pump soar almost overnight to a...
Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Dianne Feinstein, Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Physical Fitness and Exercise, U.S. Department of Justice
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Farming: Creaming the co-op
Farm and Food FileSometimes it takes a newspaper’s ink-stained thumb to right the scale of justice, and no newspaper has a bigger, inkier thumb than the New York Times. On Sunday, Oct. 28, the Times published a 2,900-word tribute to the greedy good-old-boyism that...Tags: Newspapers, Anti Trust Crime, The New York Times, Newspaper and Magazine, Trials
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School districts warned about millions in expiring technology funds
L.A. NOWSchool districts' expiring technology funds: California officials have urged school districts and charter schools to use $66 million in vouchers to buy technology before they expire next year.... -
Creaming the coop
Sometimes it takes a newspaper's ink-stained thumb to right the scale of justice, and no newspaper has a bigger, inkier thumb than the New York Times. On Sunday, Oct. 28, the Times published a 2,900-word tribute to the greedy good-old-boyism that...Tags: Newspapers, Anti Trust Crime, Newspaper and Magazine, The New York Times, Trials
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R-CALF USA requests investigation into meatpackers' sheep procurement practices
BILLINGS, Mont. - In a letter sent on Oct. 31 to Agriculture Secretary Vilsack and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, R-CALF USA wrote that it strongly supports the bipartisan congressional requests for an investigation into the sheep procurement...Tags: Kristi Noem, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Kent Conrad, Eric Holder, Max Baucus
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European regulators to deliberate Universal-EMI deal Friday
The European Commission's competition committee is scheduled Friday to deliberate whether it will approve Universal Music Group's proposed $2.2-billion merger with EMI Music, according to industry officials. If approved by antitrust regulators in...
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Book, Entertainment, Music, Sony Corp.
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E-book settlement has publishing world in turmoil
Los Angeles TimesPublishing insiders worry that a decisive court ruling benefiting retailer Amazon.com Inc. will undermine an industry already struggling with the transition to e-books. A federal court Thursday approved a settlement between the Justice Department and...Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Anti Trust Crime, Book, Justice System, Services and Shopping
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Wilbur D. "Woody" Preston Jr., special counsel during S&L crisis
Wilbur D. "Woody" Preston Jr., a retired partner in the Baltimore law firm of Whiteford, Taylor & Preston who was Maryland's special counsel during the 1985 savings and loan crisis, died Monday of complications from Alzheimer's disease at Gilchrist...Tags: Christianity, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Anglicanism, Government, Trials
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Visa, MasterCard Settle Antitrust Case
CNNNEW YORK -- Visa, MasterCard and a group of other large financial firms agreed Friday to forfeit a total of $7.25 billion to settle a massive anti-trust case brought by retailers. Visa said in a statement that its share of the settlement is $4.4 billion;...Tags: Politics, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Personal Data Collection, Bank of America Corp., Interior Policy
Dec 21, 2012
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Nov 28, 2012
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Nov 27, 2012
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Nov 3, 2012
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Nov 9, 2012
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Nov 9, 2012
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Sep 6, 2012
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Aug 29, 2012
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Jul 14, 2012
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