States push antitrust actions against Microsoft across borders
Ten state attorneys general allege anti-trust violations by Microsoft following the federal probe and tobacco litigation. Experts warn of a new, potentially dangerous trend toward inter-state legal action enabling broad challenges to firms like Intel, Texas Instruments, and AMD, raising concerns of economic warfare and calls for federal control.
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Feds
First Tobacco
Microsoft Corp
Microsoft
U.S. Justice Department
David Stewart
University of Southern California
Stewart
Washington
Liz Mendizabal
Department of Justice
Intel
Texas
Texas Instruments
AMD
IBBMEC Attacks Firms Over Kwanzaa Products
A letter from the International Black Buyers and Manufacturers Expo and Conference, representing over 1,000 black owned businesses, condemns Hallmark Cards and Giant Food for selling Kwanzaa items. The piece questions corporate co optation and traces Kwanzaa origins to Ronald Everett Karenga, noting his controversial past and the holiday’s seven principles.
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International
Black Buyers and Manufacturers Expo
Hallmark Cards
Giant Food
Washington Post
Sala Damali
Ibbmec
Kwanzaa
Lexis-Nexis
Los Angeles Times
Baltimore Sun
Seattle Times
The
Orlando Sentinel
Ronald Everett
Everett
Ron
Amiri Baraka
Leroy Jones
Karenga
Ron Karenga
California State University At
Long Beach
United Staves
Black Panthers
Martin Luther King
Charen
Reagan White House
Secondhand smoke debate pits science against bias
The article sketches a public dispute over secondhand smoke hazards, noting a $300 million tobacco settlement for research and a $49 million attorneys’ fee. It cites experts like Geoffrey Kabat and Michael Gough questioning risk levels and statistical power, while officials push stronger warnings and a smoke free agenda.
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California
Department of Health Services
Philip Morris
Tobacco Companies
Geoffrey Kabat
State University of New York At
Stony Brook
Michael Gough
U.S. Office of Technology Assessment
Cato Institute
UCLA
James Enstrom
Gough
Howard E. Rockette
Univer
Sity
Pittsburgh
Harvard
Dimitrios Trichopoulos
Richard Kluger
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Sullum
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Illmore
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