31.   Bird said at the time it was a target of the investigation, which sought to discover if manufacturers fixed prices or agreed not to compete in certain regions.

32.   -- The Japanese government will have the power to prevent groups of large insurance companies from fixing prices.

33.   A second antitrust violation involves collusion, or companies that agreed to raise, lower or fix prices among themselves.

34.   ADM is currently under investigation by the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, for fixing the price of lysine, an animal feed additive.

35.   According to the records, Cox suggests that he and Gruber operated outside the larger international conspiracy to fix the prices of citric acid around the globe.

36.   After more than nine weeks of testimony, a federal judge here dismissed a class-action lawsuit that accused four major drug makers of conspiring to fix prices.

37.   Again, it is essential to fix the price before leaving.

38.   Allegations in a lawsuit that the companies conspired to fix cigarette prices sent the stocks lower.

39.   But Baxter convinced an appeals court that even an offer to fix prices represented an illegal attempt to monopolize.

40.   But federal antitrust officials strenuously opposed the bill, saying it would allow doctors to fix prices and increase their charges.