So the Soviet Union had to aim at global dominance, and achieve it quickly, because given a free competition between systems no one would wish to choose that of the Soviets.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission considers Intel a threat to free competition, and, of course, Microsoft's dustup with Washington's Department of Justice makes daily headlines.
For the first seven years Telmex held a monopoly on phone service, and it succeeded in imposing some of the highest prices anywhere in the world. (All bidders were offered a similar competition-free period.) The market opened to rivals in 1997, and Telmex tangled with competitors repeatedly over the high access fees it charged them.
It affirmed a free order of national political competition as well: each nation would pursue its own political ends with its own political means, with no goal of an Empire, a Reich of any other form of super-state.
In a zany new competition, your wildest howl could get you a free trip to the home of Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter of the famous masterpiece, The Scream, which shows a figure howling in agony against a dramatic backdrop of swirling waters and a fiery orange sky.
Judging by some of Sarkozy's recent statements, including his move to scrap a commitment to "free and undistorted competition" in the EU constitution, she may well be able to count on his support.
The hottest market is India, where the combination of a staid state broadcaster with a free-to-air monopoly and fierce competition among cable and satellite companies has boosted pay-TV.
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And now that they've addressed one of their biggest needs, the Browns may target a tight end, cornerback and perhaps a quarterback in free agency to bring in as competition for Brandon Weeden.
The World Bank and other advisers have warned that to keep growth strong, Beijing needs to curb the dominance of state industry and encourage free-market competition a factor that isn't reflected in the headline numbers.
Watching content on your computer is one thing, but the ability to conveniently stream the same range of content on your TV (for free) could add a new level of competition that pay-TV providers are likely hoping to avoid.
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It also has to demonstrate to them that paid Facebook advertising is more effective than the free kind, which represents a different sort of competition.
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My point is that the free market does a pretty good job of creating competition (like I said earlier barring excessive federal regulations which are sometimes necessary) thus driving costs down.
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On January 19th his cabinet was due to approve an extensive package of measures designed to free up markets and increase competition in a country where cosy cartels have long been the norm.
Liebowitz emphasizes that because these ratings agencies were protected from free market competition, and so granted a government favored status by regulation, they naturally did not want to create controversial political waves by rocking the subprime mortgage boat, which would endanger their regulation protected profits.
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First, is there not a contradiction in his passion for the single market, which is basically about free and fair competition, and his wish to exempt the UK from EU labour regulations, which are a key part of every country's competitiveness?
But with a well established competition and a plethora of fresh-faced game developers leaving university or online programs producing free-to-play games, the move has been met with suspicion.
Frits Bolkestein, a Dutch free-marketeer of Eurosceptical outlook (by Dutch standards), would be a tough commissioner for competition, one of the few posts that really matter, if he gets it.
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Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play.
Meanwhile, Lord Turner, chairman of the FSA, questioned the practice of free banking in a recent speech, saying it discouraged competition between banks.
While they may be faced with more import competition, a shift to a policy of free trade could also open up export opportunities for these companies.
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This time when he tells banks and insurance companies that "a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play, " they will do well to believe him.
Orange, the mobile brand of France Telecom, launched a global free calling and texting application on Thursday, in direct competition with services such as Skype, WhatsApp and Viber.
Conservatives have a lot to like about it because it promotes free-market competition and consumer choice (more than 1, 000 different plan options exist) and, unlike every other major social program ever created, actually costs less than number crunchers first forecast it would.
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Broadcast radio now faces unprecedented competition, and despite already having the advantage of a free license for public spectrum and being the only media not to pay performers, it is stagnating.
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Fidelity has leapfrogged the competition in providing a less onerous holding period requirement for commission-free mutual fund trades.
Chinese talk of a free-trade deal that would expose India's inefficient manufacturers to fierce competition has been given short shrift.
Now they are stuck with them and can do nothing to fight the competition, since Dubai is, in essence, a tax-free zone with access to cheap labour from the Indian subcontinent.
Mr. MIKE BELL (GM Employee): Everybody understands that GM needs to make more money, be more profitable, be competitive, and it's, you know, it's a free market and free trade now, so I mean it's stiff competition out there and there's so many different vehicles.
It provided drug developers seven years of market exclusivity for their inventions, ensuring that they would have a reasonable amount of time in which to make back their hefty investment, free of competition from other pharmaceutical firms.
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But the challenge has always lain with the first half of Lincoln's phrase--that is, how to stoke that genius through a system that both rewards the inventor with a temporary business monopoly and protects the competition that lies at the heart of the free-market system.
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