41.   Large food store chains have beaten out smaller supermarkets, reducing competition, and food prices have gone up.

42.   Kaplan did not say what about the coupon arrangement might reduce competition or why he wanted the views of the antitrust authorities.

43.   Lower yields reduce competition for investment, and make corporate expansion and consumer spending cheaper.

44.   More troubling is the prospect that the alliances will reduce competition among the major airlines and strengthen their already strong hold on large metropolitan hubs.

45.   Mergers can benefit corporations by reducing competition or by increasing productive efficiency.

46.   Most mergers, by their very nature, reduce competition.

47.   New York State Attorney General Dennis Vacco could still challenge the deal on the grounds that it will reduce competition in New York.

48.   On its face, such an invitation to a competitor to reduce competition would be an antitrust violation, even if the offer were rejected.

49.   On the one hand, when competitors merge it reduces competition.