Vater knows best
IT WAS a heinous breach of the law. The national airline was getting into the credit-card business, and daring to offer cheap car rentals to its card-holders. In stepped a powerful outfit called the Centre for the Combatting of Unfair Competition. Illegal, it ruled. The airline could not advertise a discount of more than 3% on the car rentals.
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