If there were only two airlines on every route, tacit collusion between them would probably keep prices high but not so high as if there were a single airline or an explicit price-fixing agreement.

假设在每条线路上都只有两家公司，他们可能会心照不宣的勾结，但不会使得价格高到犹如一加航空公司操控或者是基于一个明显的价格协议。

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If there were only two airlines on every route, tacit collusion between them would probably keep prices high but not so high as if there were a single airline or an explicit price-fixing agreement.

如果每条航线上都只有两个航空公司飞机，那么他们间心照不宣地共谋可能会使票价偏高，但也不至于特别高，比如当只有一个航空公司垄断市场或者有一个明确的价格协议时。

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The airlines were accused of running a price-fixing cartel involving illegal collusion on air freight charges.

这些航空公司被指控相互之间非法垄断勾结，操纵货运收费。

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Not only will consumers pay more for foreign and domestically grown tomatoes at the grocery store and for salads and hamburgers at restaurants, but the new price-floor terms provide a strong indication that the specter of uncertainty associated with antidumping administration provides the necessary leverage to induce foreign producers into pricing schemes indistinguishable from collusion and price-fixing.

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Yet none of the publishers seemed to think that they could act alone, and if they presented a unified demand to Amazon they risked being charged with price-fixing and collusion.

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