I've been discriminated against because of both my gender and my religion, but I have NEVER been paid less than my male colleagues. I may not have had the opportunities to grow given to me, but I've always made good money. In my current job I'm one of the highest paid people on my contract. My personal experience is that there's no pay gap - do your job and get paid accordingly,.

Thanks!

The links to the Telegraph and the NHS are both bad.

There's more to antitrust law then where they compete. Market share is a big deal too. Justice usually jumps in around 30%.

Justice may find an excuse not to prosecute (although antitrust prosecutions tend to go up under Democratic presidents). I don't see the FTC not getting involved.

It's more than just area coverage. Antitrust law also looks at market share. If a merger will give you more than 30% of the nationwide market or so then Justice usually gets involved. If you get more than about 25% of a regional market states may get involved too.

I agree. This has antitrust issues written all over it. I predict the Justice department and the FTC will oppose the merger.

A decade ago I worked a contract for a small school district in Texas, installing server. The servers were several years out of date - purchased with a federal grant for millions of dollars. They then say in a warehouse until the district got YET ANOTHER grant to install it. Maintenance? Not unless they get another grant because no one there had a clue.....

Three days after I got my Kindle Fire I had the worst Tendinitis flare up since I was a teenager.... I had to start holding/using the fire completely differently to prevent more injuries. Biggest downside of the damn thing!

Too bad I can't dance....

I'm a third year evening student at Georgetown Law School. Do you need a summer intern for 2012?