This is also a compelling reason to oppose any plan to simply convert the national monopoly currency to a commodity basket standard.
After amassing a fortune from his property portfolio in the 1970s, he diversified his interests by setting up a TV cable company, Telemilano, and buying two other cable channels in an effort to break the national TV monopoly in Italy.
He also served as the chief judge at both the U.S. National and World Monopoly championships.
RAI's monopoly on national television advertising, for which there was huge pent-up demand.
That these benefits to society are not realised is largely because a single European grid would threaten the monopoly enjoyed by national energy champions.
The National Grid is privately owned, is a monopoly, and is highly regulated as to rates of capital return and so on.
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The real reason is that Craxi had issued a decree that made it possible for Mr Berlusconi's television companies to build the national networks that have now given them a near monopoly on commercial broadcasting.
Solving that problem was one small step for a tiny company called NanoRacks, which has carved out an unusual niche (and a monopoly, for now) adapting lab gear to the U.S. National Lab on the ISS. Since 2010 it has designed and built all 36 of the modular labs there.
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In his paper Reynolds also suggests alternative, unbiased solutions to resolving the collegiate football national championship, including a playoff system that does not favor the six major conferences that created the apparent monopoly that currently exists.
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Gazprom, Russia's gas monopoly , asked the government to sell it 25% of Unified Energy Systems, which runs the national grid.
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