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trust busting
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Noun1.trust busting - (law) government activities seeking to dissolve corporate trusts and monopolies (especially under the United States antitrust laws)trust busting - (law) government activities seeking to dissolve corporate trusts and monopolies (especially under the United States antitrust laws)
governing, government activity, government, governance, administration - the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government"
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776


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When Roosevelt ignored the threats and moved to file the trust-busting suit, he received a hasty visit from J.
TRUST-BUSTING BAILOUT Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke are going to have a hard time living this one down: A new survey finds that the government's interventions in the financial markets in 2008 made people less confident in investing in the stock market, not more.
Haskell and as a former music critic for the 'Kansas City Star', author and editor Harry Haskell brings a very special expertise to "Boss-Busters & Sin Hounds: Kansas City And Its Star", his history of the rise and decline of the crusading, trust-busting American newspaper, the 'Kansas City Star'.
 
 
 
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