The commission said it had concerns that "the companies may have colluded in reporting distorted prices".
Mr Bryant argued that politicians had "colluded for far too long with the media".
Professor Longley insisted that he had not "colluded or connived" with civil servants during the process.
The burden is on plaintiffs to prove the banks colluded to price fix Libor, and that burden is heavy.
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But managers at all levels colluded with him to take a simple request and turn it into a time-consuming effort.
In short, regulators believe banks lied about their own rates or perhaps even colluded to manipulate the daily benchmark rate.
They also colluded to fix prices, prompting the Supreme Court to rule in 1948 that film producers cannot own exhibition businesses.
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Japan's few dozen life insurers have colluded to sell identical coverage and pay identical yields on savings-type policies, regardless of investment returns.
Both parties colluded in the fuel-economy loophole that allowed the passenger "truck" boom that kept Detroit's head above water during the '90s.
Moreover, Mr Ortega colluded with Mr Aleman in a pact that gave their parties control over institutions such as the electoral council.
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Mr Snyder shifts the usual geographical focus away from the perpetrator countries to the places where they first colluded and then collided.
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Opponents reckon they have colluded in making up optimistic projections about the speed with which airlines will change to yet-to-be-built clean, quiet aircraft.
The investigation found no evidence that UNIFIL soldiers had colluded with Hezbollah or even witnessed the kidnapping as some press reports have implied.
And the Fair Trade Commission is investigating allegations that Hyundai Motor colluded with affiliates to put pressure on component suppliers to cut prices.
Apple, an antitrust case in which the U.S. alleges that Apple and five of the largest publishers colluded to raise the prices of ebooks.
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Men like Rockefeller and Carnegie colluded to control prices, eliminate competition, and manipulate the free market in the name of their own narrow interests.
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European Commission officials said its investigators made the "unannounced inspections" on Tuesday amid concerns that "the companies may have colluded in reporting distorted prices".
American Needle will have to prove that the teams colluded in an illegal restraint of trade (not all restraints on trade are actually illegal).
In writing the letter, England 2018 hope to have countered any suggestions that they may have somehow colluded with the Sunday Times or BBC investigations.
The Justice Department is investigating allegations that private equity firms colluded on buyouts, in essence depriving takeover targets the benefit of an all-out bidding war.
The investigation is predicated on the assumption that at least one other bank must have colluded with Barclays in any attempts to manipulate Libor rates.
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The CFTC says it found more than 2, 000 instances of unlawful conduct involving dozens of UBS employees and that it colluded with other panel banks.
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In 2010, several technology companies agreed to settle Justice Department allegations that they colluded to hold down wages by improperly agreeing not to poach each other's employees.
The inquiry is focused on whether drug companies (no company has been charged with wrongdoing) have colluded to block generic and new medicines from entering the market.
One was the Croatian president, Franjo Tudjman: once they had stopped fighting one another (and reinforcing each other's nationalist fury), the Serb and Croat leaders colluded to carve up Bosnia.
American Needle sued the NFL on the grounds that all 32 teams colluded to keep them from making licensed hats by entering into an exclusive 10-year licensing deal with Reebok.
Last week, SEC Chairman Christopher Cox told a Senate panel that the agency was not ignoring speculation that traders colluded to bring down Bear Stearns in a swift short-selling raid in mid-March.
In the 1980s, the owners were found to have colluded to depress the market for free agents and to make quiet agreements to stop going after the top players from other teams.
The government-controlled agency alleges in its lawsuit that banks colluded to the manipulate the Libor rate causing it to lose money on products such as mortgage bonds and swaps tied to the rate.
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Mr Miliband says he wants to make it easier to prosecute bankers who misbehave -- such as the employees at Barclays, who colluded with others in fixing the inter-bank lending rates, or Libor.
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