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20020209: President and Fellows of Harvard College; CCC Information Services Group, Inc.
0112012 Informal Interpretation
Airgas, Inc., In the Matter of
Airgas, Inc., the nation's largest distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases, settled antitrust charges that its January 2000 acquisition of Mallinckrodt, Inc.'s Puritan Bennett Medical Gas Business eliminated competition in the North American market for the production and sale of nitrous oxide. Under terms of the order, Airgas is required to divest two nitrous oxide plants and related assets to Air Liquide America Corporation within 10 days after the Commission issues its final order. Nitrous oxide is a clear, odorless gas used mainly in dental and surgical procedures as an analgesic agent or as a supplement to anesthesia.
Quebec, Inc., d/b/a Consumer Resource Services ("CRS")
20020172: B & C Privatstiftung; Bayerische Hypo - und Vereinsbank AB
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Inc.
0112010 Informal Interpretation
0112011 Informal Interpretation
20020215: Mellon Financial Corporation; PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP
20020222: Tyco International Ltd.; Wellspring Capital Partners II, L.P.
Hearst Trust, The, The Hearst Corporation, and First DataBank, Inc.
The Commission negotiated an agreement with The Hearst Corporation (Hearst) to settle a permanent injunction action filed by the FTC alleging that Hearst failed to provide documents required by premerger notification law and then consummated a merger that monopolized the integrated drug information database market. Under the terms of the order, Hearst divested the Medi-Span business to Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc. , a subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer, n.v., disgorged $19 million in profits, and to complied with certain other obligations.