Excel signed an agreement to acquire the third-largest packer in the market, Spencer Beef, a division of the Land O'Lakes agricultural cooperative. Spencer Beef owned two integrated plants and one slaughtering plant. After the acquisition, Excel would still be the second-largest packer, but would command a market share almost equal to that of the largest packer, IBP, Inc. (IBP).^[2]

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*107Monfort brought an action under 16 of the Clayton Act, 15 U. S. C. 26, to enjoin the prospective merger.^[3]Its complaint alleged that the acquisition would "violat[e] Section 7 of the Clayton Act because the effect of the proposed acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in several different ways . . . ." 1 App. 19. Monfort described the injury that it allegedly would suffer in this way:

"(f)Impairment of plaintiff's ability to compete.The proposed acquisition will result in a concentration of economic power in the relevant markets which threatens Monfort's supply of fed cattle and its ability to compete in the boxed beef market."Id.,at 20.

Question 1

Can you describe a few instances that might cause a case of tetralogy

of Fallot to go into congestive cardiac failure, even though this is an

unlikely occurrence? Please explain how this happens.

Question 2

Is a single ventricle disease associated with any syndrome? If so, what is

its name and what are its characteristics?

Question 3

What is the cause of splitting of the second sound in breathing and why

is it wide and fixed in atrial septal defect (ASD)?

Question 4

Why are deep-sea divers considered a 'high-risk' group if they have an

atrial septal defect (ASD)?8190

Question 5

Is it prognostically beneficial to start treatment of impending cor

pulmonale in a case of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

with no symptoms of failing heart but with investigational evidence

(electrocardiogram and chest X-rays)?

Question 6

What would be the ideal investigation for a suspected pulmonary

embolism according to the protocol in a UK hospital?

Question 7

Can the apical pulsation in right ventricular enlargement be

hyperdynamic?

Question 8

Please explain concentric and eccentric left ventricular hypertrophy.

When the hypertrophied ventricle dilates and the wall thins out, is it still

called a hypertrophied ventricle?

Question 9

What is viral pericarditis?

Question 10

I want to know why thrombolytic therapy is contraindicated in acute

pericarditis