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The competitive environment in the business terminal equipment market, while not fatal to Northeastern's continued survival, was doubtlessly hostile. Metaphorically, Northeastern was a mosquito challenging an elephant. Even in its best year, its annual revenues from all of its operations were less than one-twentieth of the returns SNET earned in the terminal equipment market alone. But similar size disadvantages face any aspiring entrant wishing to dislodge a dominant firm. The antitrust laws assume these risks, and Northeastern must be taken to have accepted them. Appellee alleges, however, it was also the victim of business practices not countenanced by the Sherman Act. Specifically, Northeastern contends that SNET's prices for its Dimension PBXs and its key telephones were predatorily low, and that the customized payment option SNET offered to some of its business customers, the so-called "two-tier payment plan," had anticompetitive effects. Northeastern also complains that other aspects of appellants' activities were intended to stifle competition: their advertising and marketing methods, their introduction of new products, and their use of their monopoly power over telephone service to distort competition in the business equipment market

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Why, sometimes in cases of aspiration pneumonia, would the level of

lymphocytes drop below normal range while the level of white blood

cells (WBC) and neutrophils are above normal range?

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Should steroids be used in the treatment of a standard case of pneumonia

in a young child?

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I want to know more about the epidemiology and pathophysiology of

this severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) scare and what advances

have been made in its therapy.

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What symptoms will confirm, without doubt, a diagnosis of

tuberculosis?

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non-immune tuberculosis carriers?

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Please can you help me find the answer to whether the purified

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T lymphocytes? If so, would it not be confusing with the way BCG

vaccine works?

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In diseases that have night sweats as a symptom (e.g. tuberculosis,

infective endocarditis), what causes the sweats to occur only at night and

not consistently during the day as well?

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An asymptomatic patient, whose tuberculous pleural effusion has subsided

after a year's treatment of anti-TB, is left with a small loculated effusion,

apparent on ultrasound and chest X-ray. Should this be aspirated?

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