Negotiations are ongoing, but the crux of the legislation moves the industry from a disclosure frame -- in other words, they could do pretty much whatever they wanted as long as they disclosed it in fine print somewhere -- to a situation where certain credit company tactics become illegal, such as retroactively raising interest rates on balances.
This "medicalizing of aging" bothers him, for reasons made abundantly clear in his description of the heavy-handed drug-company tactics aimed at Karen Delgado, an eminent endocrinologist.
At the same time, the companies' tactics are a striking attempt to shift the old-fashioned way that most audiences have obtained their media into the wide-open digital maw.
Cummings said the company's tactic was to "get filthy rich at the expense of our constituents".
Similarly, Congress passes a massive health care overhaul that unconstitutionally forces individuals to purchase a product from a private company, a tactic also designed to avoid the political liability of a massive tax increase.
But the company shifted tactics last summer, when settlement negotiations began.
Mr. Dach also shied away from talking in detail about the company's tactics.
To companies, this tactic is "stacking," suggesting a gaming of the system.
Microsoft did win a few challenges to the series of charges that the company's tactics were anticompetitive.
In recent days, Yahoo's directors have received a deluge of letters criticizing the company's tactics during the negotiations.
