D. James Reduced Quotations

To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

This conduct prematurely reduced competition between the companies. Merging parties must strictly adhere to the requirements of the HSR Act and maintain their companies as separate and independent competitors during the HSR waiting period.