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		<title><![CDATA[Sicily leader resigns following jail sentence]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PALERMO, Italy AFP &#8212; Right-wing Sicilian leader Salvatore Cuffaro succumbed to pressure Saturday, announcing he would resign from office after being sentenced to prison for collusion with people linked to the Mafia.  "I prefer the path of humility. I am doing this so as not to betray my ideals,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fliers more likely to get reimbursement]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Admissions of collusion this week by British Airways and Virgin Atlantic in setting fuel surcharges improves prospects for reimbursement of travelers who paid them, lawyers said Thursday.     But how much and when money may flow back to consumers remains unclear.     In settlements...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BA fined record 121.5 million pounds over price fixing]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON AFP &#8212; British Airways has been fined a record 121.5 million pounds (180 million euros, 246 million dollars) after admitting collusion over fuel surcharges on tickets, a financial watchdog said Wednesday.  But Virgin Atlantic escaped punishment because it cooperated with the inquiry, the Office of Fair Trading OFT...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jail price fixers, watchdog demands.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200706/ai_n25174770]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Jessica Irvine    Jun 24, 2007 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) --  Australian competition regulators have called for jail terms for price  fixing. Graeme Samuel, the chairman of the Australian Competition &  Consumer Commission ACCC, says that collusion is a criminal...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jail people for illegal price-fixing: watchdogs.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Jessica Irvine    Jun 24, 2007 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian  competition regulators have called for jail terms for price fixing.  Graeme Samuel, the chairman of the Australian Competition & Consumer  Commission ACCC, says that collusion is a criminal action....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[PCMA: CBO Warns Public Disclosure of Drug-Pricing Information Could Increase Medicare Costs by Billions of Dollars]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Phil Blando, +1-202-207-3614, or Charles Cote, +1-202- 207-3605, both of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association WASHINGTON, March 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office CBO finding that public disclosure of drug- pricing information could potentially increase the cost of the Medicare prescription drug...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Effect Of Competition On Wages And Productivity: Evidence From The UK]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper examines the impact of competition on wages and productivity using a panel data set of UK manufacturing industries over 1954-1973. The introduction of cartel law in the UK in the late 1950s caused an intensification of price competition in previously cartelized manufacturing industries, but it did not affect...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Collusion Between The Local Government And The Firm, And The Economic Development]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper argues that it is the collusion between the local government and the firm that leads to both high rates of economic growth and accidents in China. The optimal collusion-proof contract is investigated in this paper. In the optimal contract, the local government and the firm get information rents,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Watchdog urges tougher laws on petrol price fixing.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Philip Coorey    Aug 03, 2006 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The  Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC wants stricter  laws against petrol price fixing.  On 3 August 2006, Graeme Samuel,  chairman of the ACCC, told a Senate inquiry...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[European gov't colluded with US on CIA rendition flights]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS AFP &#8212; Fourteen European countries colluded in or tolerated the secret transfer of terrorist suspects by the United States, and two of them -- Poland and Romania -- may have harboured CIA detention centres, according to a Council of Europe report released.  "It is now clear -- although...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[European countries colluded in US "extraordinary rendition"]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS AFP &#8212; Fourteen European countries colluded in or tolerated the secret transfer of terrorist suspects by the US, and two of them -- Poland and Romania -- may have harboured CIA detention centres, according to a report from the Council of Europe.  "It is now clear -- although...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[US probing antitrust violations in music downloads]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON AFP &#8212; US authorities have begun an investigation into potential antitrust violations in the Internet music download industry, the Justice Department said.  Justice Department spokeswoman Gina Talamona confirmed the probe, which would be in addition to an investigation begun last year by New York state Attorney General Eliot...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[French consumer group targets mobile phone companies]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS AFP &#8212; French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir said it had launched legal action against leading French mobile phone operators after they were fined last week for manipulating the market for mobile phones and increasing costs for consumers.  On Thursday, the French Competition Council applied a record total fine...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The crooked end of town.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200508/ai_n17580594]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Mark Abernethy     Aug 10, 2005 (CA Charter - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Corporate crime is a  serious problem in        Australia.  Tim Philips, partner in forensic          at Deloitte,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fuel stations accused of price-fixing.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200505/ai_n17608251]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[May 26, 2005 (The Courier-Mail - ABIX via COMTEX)    The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC is  investigating claims of collusion amongst Brisbane service stations. The  ACCC has launched legal action over the claims of price-fixing by the  managers of the two petrol stations...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['Jihad' in Northern Ireland?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5089/is_200403/ai_n18495916]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Deignan, Tom   Irish Voice   03-09-2004   ISSUED in April of 2003, the explosive Stevens Report detailed the first  official acknowledgement of collusion between loyalist armed groups and  British security forces in Northern Ireland.   According to a new book, however, loyalist-British collusion...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[N.Ireland killings prompt call for probe into suspected state collusion]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200401/ai_kepm350549]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[BELFAST AFP ? A judge probing allegations of collusion between Northern Ireland paramilitaries and British security forces has recommended public inquiries into four murders, the son of one of the victims said.  The son of Patrick Finucane, a prominent Roman Catholic lawyer in Belfast killed in 1989 by Protestant...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The lie that won't die: collusion, 1967.(textbook bias regarding the Six-Day War)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States' role: Israel was not [fighting] on its own  in the [1967] war. Hundreds of volunteers, pilots, and military officers  with American scientific spying equipment of the most advanced type  photographed the Egyptian posts for it [Israel], jammed the Egyptian  defense equipment, and transmitted...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2004 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Do Vertical Mergers Facilitate Upstream Collusion?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=78844]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper investigates the impact of vertical mergers on upstream firm's ability to sustain collusion. It shows in a number of models that the net effect of vertical integration is to facilitate collusion. Several effects arise. When upstream offers are secret, vertical mergers facilitate collusion through the operation of an...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Stiffer penalties for price collusion.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4692/is_200304/ai_n17849780]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Apr 16, 2003 (The Courier-Mail - ABIX via COMTEX)    A year-long review of Australia's Trade Practices Act  advocates sweeping changes. It recommends that directors of companies  found guilty of price collusion face possible criminal prosecution,  fines and jail terms. It also urges that the...]]></description>
		<s:doctype><![CDATA[Research articles]]></s:doctype>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2003 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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