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This escape from control has led to management's evaluating the risk of occasional irrational prosecution as worth while.

A plea of nolo contendere, followed by a nominal fine, after all is a small price to pay for this untrammeled license.

( The penalties handed out in the electrical case, which included jail sentences, were unprecedented in anti-trust prosecutions, perhaps because the conspirators had displayed unusual ineptness in their pricing activities.