Leaders of the Atlanta Tea Party are challenging Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power over the monopoly's reluctance to increase its use of solar power, the ballooning costs of building a new nuclear power plant and even its legal right to monopoly status.

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But the right hardly has a monopoly on privatisation, a policy embraced in some ways just as fervently by the former Socialist government.

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Copyright was originally the grant of a temporary government-supported monopoly on copying a work, not a property right.

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Right-to-work laws would not curb that monopoly power, he said, and therefore could not be justified.

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You also have a right to be protected from the unfair leverage of a monopoly, further from the activities of a monopoly that has a lock in.

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But these companies lack the best incentive to raise their production, or develop new fields in inaccessible places: the right to export gas beyond the former Soviet Union (which is a Gazprom monopoly).

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Speaking to the country as well as to his accusers, he rejected the idea that anybody should have a monopoly on religious interpretation, arguing that pluralism was acceptable under the Islamic system, and defending the right of dissident groups and theologians to present their views.

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To your right is an open-air lounge with plush orange sofas, a coffee table stocked with games like Monopoly and Pictionary, and a white-washed writing desk that serves as a freestanding bar offering an array of cooling drinks.

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