trustbuster

Even in regions where they are strongest, their combined market share would hardly make a traditional trustbuster blink.

Looks as if I'm the trustbuster."

Memoir of a Trustbuster a Lifelong Adventure with Japan (2002)

As Teddy Roosevelt has discovered, you never know when a self-respecting trustbuster might be resurrected as a laissez-faire Republican.

The growing antagonism for the trusts, especially as income gaps widened, was tapped by an avowed trustbuster, Theodore Roosevelt, who became President in 1901.

Anne K. Bingaman has proved to be an energetic trustbuster as Assistant Attorney General.

Mr. Monti, the European Commission's chief antitrust enforcer and the world's de facto trustbuster, is planning to retire this fall.

Pesek's reputation as a maverick held him back from holding many championships in his career, and he has been characterized as a "trustbuster" in his own right.

Together, the ethically conflicted couple do a power breakfast with the chief defender of the competition in ideas: the dreaded Federal Communications Trustbuster known as the Equivocator.

Robert Alan Bicks, a Manhattan lawyer and the government's leading trustbuster in the Eisenhower administration, died yesterday at New York Hospital.

He is hired as a federal trustbuster by the Justice Department or the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and is out to make a name for himself.

George Dewey Reycraft, a leading Wall Street litigator of complex corporate tangles and a former trustbuster for the Justice Department, died on Monday in Miami.

His personal devotion to Roosevelt was doglike, and he continued some of Roosevelt's policies: though Roosevelt was known as the Trustbuster, Taft's Justice Department actually busted more trusts.

He took the job as the nation's top trustbuster in 1961 because, as he had told Robert Kennedy in a job interview, "I believe in antitrust almost as a secular religion."

And for at least a year now, Mr. Clinton has been turning for inspiration to Theodore Roosevelt, the roughriding Republican trustbuster from Oyster Bay, L.I.

Likewise, Andrew Jackson's democracy was also "a phase in the expansion of liberated capitalism", and Progressive trustbuster Theodore Roosevelt, though he "despised the rich", was at heart a conservative frightened by "any sign of organized power among the people".

As incoming president of the Federal Competition Commission, Mr. Pérez Motta is the country's top trustbuster, charged with curbing monopolies in an economy where one or two dominant companies are the norm in many industries - among them aviation, cement, energy, telecommunications and television broadcasting.

To the surprise of nobody, Anne K. Bingaman, in her first year as the top Justice Department trustbuster, has transformed a dormant antitrust operation into a fountain of activity, the ideal place for a veteran of the corporate litigation trenches to fulfill herself in making policy.

As an example of the author's range of characters, he labels Mr. Iacocca a "car salesman" playing the role of an "industrial statesman," while Ralph Nader, opposed to the Government's bailout of Chrysler, is described as "a left-wing trustbuster in the Jeffersonian tradition."