Schools or retailers with exclusive contracts with suppliers could face legal action under the Competition Act.
The Competition Act ought to help the regulator ensure that terms for common carriage are fair.
He is understood to be frustrated by the lack of prosecutions under the new Competition Act to end price-fixing and break-up cartels.
Even so, if ministers want to see more competition they may have to do more than lower the threshold and rely on the Competition Act.
But, as the Competition Act finally comes into force, the jury is still very much out over whether or not this legislation will produce great benefits for ordinary people.
The report also suggests that Mr Byatt could use the Competition Act, which comes into effect next March, to force water companies to sell unused rights to extract water.
BT's threats to resort to judicial review and is prepared to prosecute under the Competition Act only if his legal advisers believe that there is at least a 70% chance of success a very high bar for any test case to overcome.
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Walcott's upset victory, only the second by a non-European in Olympic javelin competition, should act as encouragement to Yego, who is not short of self belief.
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While a single wind-turbine does not affect the global atmosphere, the installation of a large number of such devices will interfere with the atmospheric circulation and diminish the extraction efficiency on the large scale, since any extraction of momentum will act in competition with natural wind-power energy dissipation by turbulence in the boundary layer.
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Though quitting the competition may have been an act of staggering self-regard, it was no hollow gesture.
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Facing such intense global competition, and with Recovery Act funds poised to expire soon, sending U.S. clean energy markets off a clean tech funding cliff, the U.S. is in dire need of a long-term clean energy investment strategy to regain economic and technological leadership in this new growth sector.
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If so--and if Congress determines some form of Internet regulation is needed--the FCC should amend the Communications Act to adopt the competition-based approach recommended here.
In the present case, the claims against Mr. Vaughan are straightforward: trademark infringement under the Lanham Act, Texas unfair competition, including right of publicity, palming off and misappropriation.
He says they need to act where there is insufficient competition, but not where there is.
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The aim of the act was to encourage greater competition within the industry in the hope that this would lead to an improvement in the quality of work.
To fight this, several competition authorities may need to exchange information and act jointly.
Choice means competition, which means public schools start getting their act together.
So what we do is make sure that the Affordable Care Act gives us new tools to promote competition, transparency and better deals for consumers.
The defendants were accused of violating the Sherman Act and Clayton Act antitrust laws by conspiring to eliminate competition for labor, depriving workers of job mobility and hundreds of millions of dollars of compensation.
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One would think the FCC had been chastened enough by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, when, to spur competition, Washington forced traditional phone companies to lease their lines at below-market rates to newcomers.
This, conservatives believe, is the best way to drive down healthcare costs long term by allowing healthcare consumers to act as consumers, shop around, and make competition bring prices down.
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The 1996 act was intended, in part, to create more competition in U.S. telecommunications.
It is important to note that the interests of the U.S. business community would be better served if we were, instead, to act in such a way as to accelerate "reform competition" amongst the republics.
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Given these problems, it is understandable that the 2006 act left the pricing model unchanged, opting instead for more competition.
And now that that time has come carriers have failed to act as the market dictates they should: Using the newfound competition as an impetus to innovate or at least make their prices more competitive.
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Essentially, it is the act of performing a public good in a way that screws your competition.
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Regardless of whether they knew it, the conspirators were violating the Sherman Antitrust Act, the federal law that seeks to protect free and vibrant competition in the United States.
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