A business operator that has adominantmarketpositionshall notrefusein a disguised form to trade withtransacting parties withoutajustifiablereasonbysettingan excessively highorlowprice.
Even without the political reality that the law will change over the next several years--with orwithouta scheduled sunset--there is another reason why the overnight hike from zero to 55% isn't going to happen.
Obviously, if Congress goes further -- withorwithouta budget summit endorsement of still further defense cuts -- there is every reason to believe that the relatively small number of key prime contractors still in the defense business will decline as well.
As the tension and the heat inside the overcrowded courtroom built up, Magistrate Desmond Nair made his painstaking way through a summary of the evidence and arguments - with the occasional digression into legal history - without seeming to give prosecution or defence a particular reason for confidence.