How To Use Trustbuster In A Sentence
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While he declined to comment on specific remedies, he did say he thinks trustbusters can seek a punishment that covers new efforts to extend the company's monopoly.
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The Brandeisians named for that old Progressive trustbuster, Louis Brandeis argue that no such "partnership" really exists.
Robert Teitelman: David Skeel's 'The New Financial Deal'
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Of course, there are also common features to all trust building--performing well in some services raises trust more than in others (health provision has higher returns than market regulation, for example); expectations are ratcheted up (what you achieved yesterday becomes today's baseline); confidence can be quickly squandered (any suspicion of gaming evaluations is a trustbuster); and a sense of generational betterment gathers support (we appreciate a state that opens opportunities for our children).
Otaviano Canuto: The Day After Tomorrow: Will We Ever Trust the State?
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Europe's trustbusters are coming down hard, too.
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But by the time she emerged from the blizzard of documents, the trustbuster had turned into a truster.
Antitrust And Common Sense
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And while the company has extended an olive branch to trustbusters, holding preliminary talks on July 23, it doesn't appear to be willing to make any concessions that would reduce its power.
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Webster's Ninth has recorded as main entries broncobuster (1887) ` one who breaks wild horses to the saddle '; trustbuster (1903) ` one who seeks to break up business trusts; specif: a federal official who prosecutes trusts under the antitrust laws'; sodbuster (ca. 1918) ` one (as a farmer or a plow) that breaks the sod '; gangbuster
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
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He earned the nickname "trustbuster" for reining in monopolies, and passed the first income tax into law.
The Third Depression
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But I'm feeling like this was a very good morning for the President: Romney is still the likely winner of the nomination, but his fight against Rick Santorum will be tougher than anyone is currently predicting and will open up deep divisions in the Republican party; and Romney is the perfect opponent for a President now emulating anti-Wall Street trustbuster Teddy Roosevelt.
Mike Lux: A Good Morning for the President
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To fix this problem, trustbusters have installed a provision forcing the company to disclose more information about its so-called application programming interfaces, or APIs.
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Such a deal would be questionable, because most trustbusters look askance at one company dominating more than a third of a market.
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He fought party bosses, sued to break up railroad trusts, was the "trustbuster" who launched 44 lawsuits against major corporations, gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to set rates, and led the fight to eliminate corporate election campaign contributions.
How Right Is McCain?
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It's also a Republican insight, thanks to the interventionist policies of great Republican presidents like Lincoln "give us a protective tariff and we will have the greatest country on earth" and Teddy "the trustbuster" Roosevelt.
Ian Fletcher: Free Trade and the Tea Party: Puppets or Rebels?
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By changing the rules of the game of business so that sociopathic business behavior is no longer rewarded (and, indeed, is punished -- as Teddy Roosevelt famously did as the "trustbuster" and FDR did when he threatened to send "war profiteers" to jail), we can create a less dysfunctional and more egalitarian society.
Thom Hartmann: Profiling CEOs and Their Sociopathic Paychecks
