Antitrust and Trade Regulation laws aim to promote free competition in the marketplace. Agreements or cooperative efforts by two or more entities that affects or restrains competitors is illegal under these laws. The Sherman Act makes illegal any contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce and makes monopolies and attempts, combinations, or conspiracies to monopolize illegal. The Clayton Act regulate price discrimination, tying and exclusive dealing contracts, stock acquisition and interlocking directorates.
Bethlehem is a town in Barrow County, Georgia, United States. The population was 716 at the 2000 census. The Price Family from the novel, The Poisonwood Bible, were residents of Bethlehem and there are many references to the town in the book.