Over the last few years many of them have adopted a bunker mentality toward takeover artists, whose predatory tactics have wreaked havoc in corporate board rooms.
However, the intensity of predation does appear to have increased dramatically during the Cambrian as new predatory "tactics" (such as shell-crushing) emerged.
The concern that 2 might be applied so as to further anticompetitive ends is plainly not met by inquir ing only whether the defendant has engaged in "unfair" or "predatory" tactics.
The antitrust laws are designed to protect an industry from monopolists that use predatory or other illegal tactics to extinguish rivals.
It follows from the argument that price cutting can be a successful predatory tactic if marginal costs are not rising.
The U.A.W. reacts angrily to what Stephen Jones, assistant director of the union's heavy truck department, describes as Navistar's "predatory" tactics.
Antitrust laws are designed to prevent monopolists from using predatory tactics to destroy rivals; in this case, however, Intel is accused of victimizing putative competitors that are also among its major customers.
In its brief, the government repeatedly described Microsoft's free distribution of browsing software as a "predatory" tactic to harm its main rival in that market, the Netscape Communications Corporation.
The sight of states suing the industry because of the tremendous damage its products cause can only reinforce the idea that this is an industry whose predatory tactics have gone uncontrolled for too long.
Entrepreneurs taking decisions of this nature are certainly not resorting to 'immoral or predatory tactics' - I quote from the document before us.