trustbuster
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Europe has led the charge with antitrust investigations and Margrethe Vestager, the region’s top trustbuster, recently vowed to take a harder line on the companies.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2020
Teddy Roosevelt, the trustbuster himself, was also a eugenicist, an inconvenient fact left out by Wu.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2019
Despite his trustbuster image, Wu argues, Roosevelt had little problem with bigness itself.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2018
Some even hoped he might be a Teddy Roosevelt–style trustbuster.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2017
Joseph Borkin, 67, Washington attorney, economist and author; of a heart attack; in Chevy Chase, Md. A trustbuster with the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
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