the tva and other electric companies bought hundreds of mlions of dollars worth of eipment every yearat lengths would the manufacturers of this equipment go to to make sure that the price was right? for 40 years, regulation protected the airline industry from the hazards of competition. have 25 years of deregulation been an improvement? to paraphrase calvin coolidge, the business of america is big business. large and crucial industries are dominated by a few powerful companies which have grown with the economy and rewritten the rules of competition. what are the economic and legal rules these companies live by? what has big business done for and to the consumer? "whatever happened to price competition?" with the help of economic analyst richard gill we'll examine these questions on this edition of "economics u$a." i'm david schoumacher. there's no business bigger than the auto business. if you've shopped for a car recently this is a familiar sight. it looks like real competition a variety of products at a variety of prices. but is what you see what you get? it was when you bought one

the tva and other electric companies bought hundreds of mlions of dollars worth of eipment every yearnufacturers of this equipment go to to make sure that the price was right? for 40 years, regulation protected the airline industry from the hazards of competition. have 25 years of deregulation been an improvement? to paraphrase calvin coolidge,

these days he is the anchor and managing editor of the cable tv channel access tva could think of no better person to be with and i hope you join me to welcome lucinda franks and dan rather. >> are you okay? >> i am perfect. >> we have a lot of goals this evening and to talk about her great new book but i would be remiss and you would agree if we don't pay our respects to the great robert morganthau is a great warrior into theaters but since then a great warrior for justice and other great district attorneys in the history of the country. mr. attorney we pay our respects to you. [applause] but this is lucinda at night. timeless it turns out to me it has been advertised as a love story that anybody recognizes it is much more than that. how to make a marriage work work, it is also about history of new york city is about terrorism that behind the scenes of what is like of the pain and post 9/11 era. having said that would you want "the reader" to take away from the book? >> guest: i think to meet at the end of the book was most important that bob and i stuck together we did not abandon

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ge was also doing millions of dollars of business with the federal government, including the tva, which was a point of criticism for ronald reagan, the tennessee valley authority. he is let go in spring of 1962. his movie career ended about the same time. his last movie is "the killers," which is a remake of hemingway's novel, made as a movie in 1946. he did not even get top ailing. billing. reagan plays a bad guy. the only time in 56 movies that he plays a bad guy. in the movie, he is a mob boss, a crime boss. he is seen finally slapping angie dickinson, who portrayed his mistress, knocking her to the ground. the movie was poorly reviewed, deemed so violent it was not broadcast on television, but was moved to the big screen instead. that was the end of his movie career. his mother nell dies in 1962. he mourned her very, very deeply. in some ways, reagan was closer to his mother. jack reagan was catholic. now was a member of the assemblies of christ. reagan went in her direction, and neil became a catholic like his father. for a couple years, he is kind of the unofficial mc of southern

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