The Antitrust Division will vigorously enforce this requirement against any company that assumes operational control of a business that it is acquiring.

The commentary provides a new level of transparency in our merger enforcement decisions. The business community can see how the agencies have applied the Horizontal Merger Guidelines to a wide range of specific factual circumstances.

The divestitures required by the department will ensure that competition at movie theaters in the affected parts of Chicago, New York, Boston, Seattle and Dallas is preserved.

This is a company and a brand that's tied to one person. A guilty verdict will further damage the business because people generally don't like to be associated with a person convicted of a crime. Can the brand survive? I think it will.

Once this company gets control of ports they will be able to get a certain number of employees into the U.S. legally on (work) visas. Once people are in the country, it is much easier to establish sleeper cells.

Tyco is not Enron. Tyco is a real company with a real business plan that still employs thousands of people.