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The Office of Fair Trading said Diageo's Bell's whisky competes with Whyte & Mackay's own-label and branded whisky and that its acquisition of the United Spirits stake could lead to "a substantial lessening" in competition.
The commission said one effective remedy to the "substantial lessening of competition" would be to sell the entire 29.8% stake.
The CMA has concluded that the merger may not be expected to result in a substantial lessening of competition.
Simon Polito, who chaired the competition commission inquiry, said it had "confirmed our provisional view that Ryanair's minority shareholding has resulted, or may be expected to result, in a substantial lessening of competition between the airlines".
All was set fair for the deal until yesterday, when the Office of Fair Trading said it could lead to a "substantial lessening of competition" in the computer games magazine market and referred it to the Competition Commission.
The watchdog said the merger between the two firms had created the "realistic prospect" of "a substantial lessening of competition" in the supply of sausage rolls and cold and hot pies.
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We think it unlikely that significantly more inadequately supported papers will be published under re-review opt-out than under the more usual system; and it will have the substantial advantage of lessening the burden on a limited pool of referees.
A provider from Rwanda remarked favorably that workload is sometimes substantial but would lessen with the introduction of an LAI: Work will decrease because the frequency of clients will also decrease … we will do our work better because sometimes it happens that we don't do our work like we should because of the pressure of a line of people waiting outside the door.
The data presented in this study significantly increases our knowledge of M. catarrhalis biology and these data could be instrumental in the development of novel antimicrobial treatments designed to lessen the substantial individual, social and economic burdens of COPD and OM.
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Just possibly, outflows may be lessening.
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