Joel Klein
Joel Klein
Joel Irwin Kleinis an American lawyer and school superintendent. He was the Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, the largest public school system in the United States, serving more than 1.1 million students in more than 1,600 schools. He was succeeded by Cathie Black in January 2011...
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Our action today demonstrates that we're not going to give carte blanche approval to mergers in the defense industry. While industry downsizing can be desirable, or even necessary, we will do what it takes to preserve effective competition.
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Our investigation has uncovered several specific examples where consumers have actually been harmed, ... Smart cards, which were delayed for about a decade . . . as well as the development of a system of secure transactions for the Internet, something consumers and businesses obviously would welcome.
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I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,
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Microsoft is a monopolist and it engaged in massive anti-competitive practices that harmed innovation and limited consumer choice.
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Microsoft itself is responsible for where things stand today,
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Without the divestitures, many American farmers would have faced lower prices for major crops they produce.
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Without the settlement, Raytheon might have tried to disadvantage its radar competitors.
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We are looking at the range of sanctions; talking to people in the industry, people who work with Microsoft; people who manufacture computers and we're doing an analysis to make sure that we have a remedy that will promote competition, assure innovation and promote consumer choice,
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We believe we have presented strong evidence through witness deposition, testimony and documents to support the government's case that Visa and MasterCard engaged in conduct that stifled competition and harmed consumers, ... The litigation team led by Melvin Schwarz did an outstanding job.
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We stopped short of asking for enjoining the product precisely because we believe in creating options, not restricting them. We are not seeking to impose a recall.
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What Microsoft has been doing, through a wide variety of illegal business practices, is leveraging its Windows monopoly operating system to force its other software products on consumers,
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has been and always remains open to a settlement.
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I am enormously grateful to President Clinton for giving me this opportunity. My five-and-a-half years with the division have been extraordinarily gratifying, but the time has come to seek new challenges. I have done what I set out to do here, and our work is on the right track.
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We welcome this decision to abandon the transaction. This means that the United States government and the American people will continue to receive the highest possible quality of military products and services in the defense of this nation, at the lowest possible cost to the taxpayer.