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ANTITRUST: The generally process of preventing monopoly practices or breaking up monopolies that restrict competition. The term antitrust derives from the common use of the trust organizational structure in the late 1800s and early 1900s to monopolize markets. The most noted example of the use of a monopoly trust was the Standard Oil Trust, controlled by J. D. Rockefeller and dismantled through the Sherman Act in 1911. The creation of similar monopoly trusts led to the several antitrust laws, including the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, and the Federal Trade Commission Act.
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BANKING An industry containing depository institutions that provide financial intermediary services and safekeeping of checkable deposits that make up an important portion of the economy's money supply. These depository institutions--including traditional commercial banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations, and mutual savings banks--pursue financial intermediation and deposit safekeeping through fractional-reserve banking. Banking is regulated by the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Comptroller of the Currency, among a host of other federal and state regulators.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a going out of business sale trying to buy either a dozen high trajectory optic orange golf balls or a large red and white striped beach towel. Be on the lookout for attractive cable television service repair people.
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Approximately three-fourths of the U.S. paper currency in circular contains traces of cocaine.
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"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." -- Peter F. Drucker, business strategist
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FTC
Federal Trade Commission
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