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...ultimate passage of the bill was never in doubt, but Sen. Howard M. Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) was threatening to prolong debate, which began Monday, into the weekend unless senators agreed to tougher capital requirements...
...Each 1 cents rise would discourage unnecessary driving and add $1 billion to the U.S. Treasury, part of which could in turn be used to develop nonfossil energy sources. The second obvious step is to raise the auto industry's fuel-economy requirements. That, says Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum, "could save twice the amount of oil in the Prince William Sound spill every...
Nonetheless, Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee and a vocal critic of big mergers, immediately objected to the proposed combination. He acknowledged that the deal did not appear to violate the Government's guidelines for "horizontal concentration" within an industry, but asserted that those "guidelines are clearly inadequate for a complete evaluation of this merger." The Senator expressed concern about companies being involved in both the production and distribution of cable-TV programming. Metzenbaum noted that in most communities there is only one cable operator. He fears that such operators might rely too heavily on programs...
Lorenzo stressed the filing covered only Eastern and not its parent Texas Air Corp., of which he is chairman. But yesterday, Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D-Oh.) filed a bill to allow Eastern creditors to collect from the parent company...
...This bill would prevent Frank Lorenzo and any other airline buccaneers from using bankruptcy to escape their creditors and destroy their workers," Metzenbaum said...