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- noun US The breaking up of
trusts ormonopolies .
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Progressive Movement, Wilson demonstrated his mastery over Congress by creating the antitrust laws in a way that ended most of the "trustbusting" and drew clear lineson what was allowed.
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Progressive Movement, Wilson demonstrated his mastery over Congress by creating the antitrust laws in a way that ended most of the "trustbusting" and drew clear lineson what was allowed.
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Progressive Movement, Wilson demonstrated his mastery over Congress by creating the antitrust laws in a way that ended most of the "trustbusting" and drew clear lineson what was allowed.
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[[antitrust]] laws in a way that ended most of the "trustbusting" and drew clear lineson what was allowed.
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[[antitrust]] laws in a way that ended most of the "trustbusting" and drew clear lineson what was allowed.
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Beard refers to the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act and 1914 Clayton Antitrust Act - trustbusting legislation of their day to defuse anti-competititive practices.
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Intel insists on the propriety of its practices, then changes them anyway, since the basic competitive utility of loyalty and volume discounts is likely to survive whatever the trustbusting busybodies do.
Munchausen Mommies of Antitrust Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. 2009
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The trustbusting TR had long antagonized the chief captains of American business and finance.
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A century ago, it dismantled the Oil Trust and in the 1980s AT & T. Today, however, the only time trustbusting comes up is when one industry sector challenges another, never when it's in the public interest.
Robert McChesney's The Political Economy of Media - Part II 2008
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Reagan is the only successful president in the twentieth century who was also a strongly ideological conservative (I do not count the environmentalist, trustbusting TR as a conservative, and Eisenhower was far more moderate than today's conservatives).
Balkinization 2004
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