In his typical tart language, Judge Frank Easterbrook of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago dismissed a lawsuit that accused Sears of risking an antitrust suit by keeping on its board two directors who worked at competing retail companies.

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In the typical process of electronic consolidation, they say, positioning will be built in at the circuit board level.

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