It has an enormous demographic database that it collected when it had a monopoly on mortgages.
PeruRail invested in new trains, but even so its monopoly has been highly lucrative.
Since it hadn't invented the drug, Bristol couldn't get a 20-year patent -- a legal monopoly.
What alternatives are there to the present situation, of a Federal Reserve monopoly floating fiat currency?
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But the state monopoly is keeping its grip over access to ultra-high capacity submarine cables.
It broke the monopoly of the big players not only in content but also in devices.
The danger remains that Microsoft will somehow exploit its desktop monopoly to push Google aside.
Yes, Merck or Pfizer has honestly earned the government-issue, fixed-term monopoly that we call a patent.
In the United States, we have had a Federal Reserve currency monopoly essentially since about 1940.
We spent the first two nights without power in NYC, playing Monopoly and card games.
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But feeding the power into those lines is not a monopoly in any manner at all.
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The regulatory control only has to be over the part which really is the monopoly.
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"It's the dominant fixed-line operator because it had a monopoly until recently, " he says.
And by no means are these kinds of actions a monopoly of either party.
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Kane, 47, joined the outfit in January after 25 years competing in the monopoly-prone telecom industry.
BAA's monopoly grip on London's three main airports only heightens the risk and depresses Ferrovial's shares.
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Restricted supply meant money lenders had monopoly pricing power and could charge borrowers artificially high rates.
The IT monopoly is over and it does not make sense to ignore that fact.
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So, if the era of the IT monopoly is over what era has begun?
The network effect of eBay might seem like a natural monopoly in the making.
Bard and Tyco of creating a monopoly in catheters and Premier and Novation of enabling it.
Russia wants a monopoly on the use of force in the former Soviet Union.
And there is no reason why any single company should maintain a quasi-monopoly in this field.
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Deutsche Post has been partially privatised but retains a lucrative monopoly of the letters market.
This means that customers have limited choices, which gives each service provider a near monopoly power.
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Some say profitable hospitals may be using local monopoly to overcharge insurers and patients.
The very best brand names, Placek asserts, can help a company gain a near-monopoly.
The new hardware may also raise more questions around IBM's monopoly of the mainframe business.
Government can also grant monopoly status, barriers to entry and protection from foreign competition.
Telkom's monopoly makes it easy to squeeze prosperous urban customers to subsidise services for the poor.
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