On this view there might have been a case for changing the Sherman act, so that a bad standard could be dislodged, but there would have been no case under the present law against Microsoft.
Conventional academic wisdom is that this period has been a wonderful example of how economic management via currency manipulation can solve the terrible problems of the bad old gold standard years.
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Monopolies like Standard Oil and DuPont looked bad: they looked greedy and ruthless and, in the case of DuPont, which made munitions, sinister.
Too bad they didn't incorporate a standard driver set for these things, so when you plug in your device, you must already have a connection established in order to get the proper drivers.
So it would seem that Milton Friedman thinks that the gold standard of 1873 was a really bad idea.
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The good news is we found out about these shenanigans before this incredibly bad behavior became an acceptable new, lower standard.
While we've all been waiting (and waiting) for some good news to surface about the progression of 802.11n, it appears that bad news just follows the next-generation WiFi standard around like a shadow.
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In the end, it's likely that someone will look bad, and I'm not talking just about Standard Chartered.
Judged by any professional standard, the collected sayings of the priesthood are so bad as to be approaching quackery.
The fiduciary standard implies that rules and regulations will guard against fraud, bad investment advice, or excessive fees.
So, here's a perfectly good wireless HDMI option based on a standard that everyone and their grandmother has already adapted too -- too bad there's not a laundry list of companies already signed on to integrate it.
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While an applicant with good credit is more likely to be approved for this standard card, there are some places that will offer unsecured credit cards for bad credit risks.
"There's a bit of relief rally from the growth data, which was weak but not as bad as people had feared, " said Andrew Milligan, head of global strategy at Standard Life Investments.
Real estate lawyers generally conclude that he did nothing illegal, but that the governor might still have held himself to a higher standard of conduct, raising the question of when a savvy business deal becomes bad for his politics.
"The idea was never to stifle free speech or deny a young guy his right to make a bad joke, but to hold the world's largest purveyor of sports entertainment and journalism to some kind of standard, " she told CNN.
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