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Regulators want Microsoft to pull media player out
By: Byron Acohido, Noelle Knox
3.25.2004
BRUSSELS — European antitrust regulators slammed Microsoft (MSFT) on Wednesday with far-reaching sanctions that could force the world's largest software maker to alter the way it does business globally.
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Canadian Web Pharmacies Face Uphill Battle
PRI in the News
3.25.2004
U.S. demand for cheap online drugs and manufacturer supply freezes are forcing Canadian Web pharmacies to improve their standards and sort out drug supply issues, the Canadian Press reports.
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EU Microsoft Decision Bad for Consumers and America
Press Release
3.24.2004
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Today, European regulators delivered a major blow to Microsoft, hitting the software maker with a record fine and new rules in addition to the sanctions the company already faces under American antitrust law.
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Forcing Defense Innovation Through Budget Constraints
Technology Op-Ed
3.24.2004
Programs such as Echelon, Terrorist Information Awareness, MATRIX, Magic Lantern, Carnivore and Semantic Forests are fighting words in civil libertarian circles, and unfortunately there are many legitimate reasons to worry about government snoops.
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Expect withdrawal
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
3.24.2004
I really enjoyed Collin Levey's "Borderline hysteria over Canadian drugs" (guest column, March 18), and was flattered to see that she cited some of my research. As Levey notes, Canadians often "stream south" when they need treatments for serious ailments.
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Borderline hysteria over Canadian drugs
By: Collin Levey
3.18.2004
Seattleites can hold their progressive heads high again this week. After months of watching other states and municipalities around the country get nasty with Big Pharma, the Emerald City is now getting ready to claim its own piece of the barge to Canada.
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Fight over baby-food vouchers
3.18.2004
An anti-trust suit involving baby food could serve as a monument to how subtle corporate strategies can take government for a ride, and as a caution to free-market advocates like me.
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Time To Clean Up the Nation's Telecom Mess
Technology Op-Ed
3.10.2004
The story of the FCC's resistance to the rule of law is a chronicle of bureaucratic stubbornness. Congress intended for the 1996 Telecom Act to create a coherent national policy, but the FCC interpreted this as the freedom to allow the states to balkanize U.S. telecommunications into 51 different regulatory fiefdoms.
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Some Parts Of Medicare Bill Shouldn't Be Stripped Away
Health Care Op-Ed
3.8.2004
That dichotomy captures beautifully the recent Medicare legislation implementing a subsidy program for prescription drug purchases. The beneficiaries, even those only "29," will not have seen childhood in quite awhile, and most are far from poor.
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The re-importation blackmail
Health Care Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
3.4.2004
In their Feb. 24 Commentary column, David Henderson and Charley Hooper make a fuzzy free-market argument that re-importing drugs from Canada could be a "small boon" to Americans "by causing the Canadian government to relent from its price-control policy" ["Hidden drug-reimport potential"].
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ICANN't take it anymore
Technology Op-Ed
3.3.2004
Last week, VeriSign filed suit against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in federal court. This move could signify the beginning of a dangerous drift in Internet governance.
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Chicken Little of the FCC
Technology Op-Ed
By: Lucas Mast
3.2.2004
Not currently saddled with the regulatory burdens of traditional phone providers, VoIP technologies are quickly moving closer to the mainstream. But it still remains to be seen whether they will supplant existing methods of communication.
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