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Old Mar 6, 2015 | 8:56 pm
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Originally Posted by ANC
the feds never stop or block any buyouts or mergers for any company. When was the last one that you can find?
UA/US in 2006 in the airline space.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=87893

In tech they sued to stop ORCL/PSFT around the same time and got themselves a bloody nose.
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