Joel Klein
Joel Klein
Joel Irwin Kleinis an American lawyer and school superintendent. He was the Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, the largest public school system in the United States, serving more than 1.1 million students in more than 1,600 schools. He was succeeded by Cathie Black in January 2011...
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We welcome this decision to abandon the transaction. This means that the United States government and the American people will continue to receive the highest possible quality of military products and services in the defense of this nation, at the lowest possible cost to the taxpayer.
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Without the divestitures, many American farmers would have faced lower prices for major crops they produce.
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Without the settlement, Raytheon might have tried to disadvantage its radar competitors.
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I am enormously grateful to President Clinton for giving me this opportunity. My five-and-a-half years with the division have been extraordinarily gratifying, but the time has come to seek new challenges. I have done what I set out to do here, and our work is on the right track.
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Much like the browser was in 1995 before Microsoft declared war, Office has the very real potential to be a cross-platform middleware threat to the dominance of the Windows monopoly,
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What I can do is create the opportunities. And that's what I think we have done.
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Our investigation has uncovered several specific examples where consumers have actually been harmed, ... Smart cards, which were delayed for about a decade . . . as well as the development of a system of secure transactions for the Internet, something consumers and businesses obviously would welcome.
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Our action today demonstrates that we're not going to give carte blanche approval to mergers in the defense industry. While industry downsizing can be desirable, or even necessary, we will do what it takes to preserve effective competition.
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What Microsoft has been doing, through a wide variety of illegal business practices, is leveraging its Windows monopoly operating system to force its other software products on consumers,
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has been and always remains open to a settlement.
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I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,
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We requested the opportunity to analyze those suggestions, and there may be a few that are acceptable to us.
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We stopped short of asking for enjoining the product precisely because we believe in creating options, not restricting them. We are not seeking to impose a recall.