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Monopoly
1 According to Cornell University Law School, trusts and
monopolies are of wealth in the hands of a few
amassings
concatenations
concentrations
masses
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thought to be injurious to the public and individuals
because such trusts minimize, if not normal
marketplace competition, and yield undesirable price
controls
marginalize
maximize
obfuscate
obliterate
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individual initiative
drip
sap
skip
tap
4 To prevent trusts from creating on trade or
commerce and reducing competition, Congress passed
the Sherman Act in 1890
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curtailment
refrains
restraints
5 The Sherman Act is the main source of law
antitrust
commercial
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oligarchic
6 The Sherman Act is a Federal and as such has a
scope limited by Constitutional constraints on the Federal
government
bylaw
edict
regulation
statute
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wide interpretation and application of this act
about
for
on
with
8 The Sherman Act applies to all transactions and
business involved in commerce
international
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interstate
intestate
9 Most if not all states have comparable laws prohibiting
monopolistic conduct, price fixing agreements, and other
acts that constrain trade having strictly local
compact
contract
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influence
10 The Massachusetts Act reads: it shall be unlawful for
any person in commerce, to make a sale of goods
on the condition that the purchaser thereof shall not deal
in the goods of a competitor of the seller, where the effect
of such sale or such condition may be to lessen
substantially competition or tend to create a monopoly in
any line of trade
embroiled
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engaged
entwined