1.   Although some members of Congress have questioned whether airline mergers harm consumers, Maldutis said mergers can create opportunities for new competition.

2.   Although problems like the one at Grapevine.net are becoming more common, consumers rarely are harmed.

3.   And fourth, because no rule of law supports the notion that if a product harms a consumer, the manufacturer owes money to the state.

4.   And, Jackson found, the actions harmed consumers.

5.   Antitrust law does not forbid monopolies, but it does forbid a monopolist from predatory business tactics that stifle competition and harm consumers.

6.   Antitrust regulators not only police anticompetitive behavior by companies, but try to block or alter the terms of mergers that would harm consumers.

7.   Baxter thought that such practices rarely harmed consumers because they could turn to products of other manufacturers.

8.   Alioto said the clauses threatened to give Hearst a newspaper monopoly that would harm consumers by offering fewer newspapers and higher prices.

9.   But consumer groups said the decision would harm consumers by allowing the largest companies to grow bigger and by removing rules encouraging them to broadcast programs produced by others.

10.   But Gates said Microsoft was being punished for defeating its competitors in the marketplace and that there was no evidence its business practices had harmed consumers.