But the 1992 Cable Act, far from being a misstep, as opponents suggest, is a model for pro-consumer, pro-competitive government intervention.
In that one short paragraph is powerful evidence that the merger the U.S. government is blocking would be pro-competitive and pro-consumer.
"Now courts are much better at recognizing how behavior can be anticompetitive even if it's characterized by a pro-competitive veneer, " Balto says.
"Intel claims that all it's doing is pro-competitive discounting, " says Balto.
But prosecuting pro-competitive conduct is almost certainly more costly than mistakenly allowing anticompetitive conduct because mechanisms are in place to mitigate the latter but not the former.
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They can vigorously enforce antitrust laws and maintain a pro-competitive bias to securing equal access for service providers to such networks as telephone, wireless and cable systems.
"We are confident that the microprocessor market segment is functioning normally and that Intel's conduct has been lawful, pro-competitive and beneficial to consumers, " Intel General Counsel Bruce Sewell said in response to the European Commission's move.
By stopping it, we undermine the inevitable, pro-consumer competitive responses to Google.
But keeping up with the Joneses is an even more gripping problem in the uber-competitive world of pro sports than it is at the country club.
Bradley Smith of the Centre for Competitive Politics, a pro-speech group, says such fears are exaggerated.
Even with Obama's pro-immigration shift and the growing number of Latinos in competitive states, their actual turnout may flag from their record numbers in 2008.
So, aided by some competitive pricing and top-shelf specifications, the G Pro reads on paper like a boss.
The 38-year-old actor was a competitive junior player in Texas who considered turning pro.
Yes, Mexico continues to struggle with grave security threats, but it is also fostering a globally competitive marketplace, a growing middle class, and an increasingly influential pro-democracy voter base.
These pro-growth reforms are the result of tax competition, or the pressure to adopt competitive economic policies that is put on governments by an increasingly globalized society where both labor and capital are mobile.
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