It has an enormous demographic database that it collected when it had a monopoly on mortgages.
But feeding the power into those lines is not a monopoly in any manner at all.
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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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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.
My investment capital says Green Bay does not have a monopoly on such a perspective.
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The full village name, made its way onto a Monopoly board in October 2011.
That makes Windows not just a monopoly, but a highly strategic weapon as well.
It is not intended to give one competitor a monopoly on an entire industry.
If Microsoft--which owns more than 90% of that market--isn't a monopoly, then nobody is.
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Suppose a monopoly is enjoying high profits, deterring competition by the mere threat of predation.
By creating a barrier to entry they helped create a monopoly-like position in portable music.
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Quite simply, yes, it was true that China had a monopoly on the supply.
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It is hard to avoid making money if you have a monopoly over Saudi oil, for example.
We don't want a Super League where the usual suspects get a monopoly on the Super League.
The island chain does not have a monopoly on these features, but it does offer other advantages.
Owning the gene patent is, for all intents and purposes, owning a monopoly on the gene itself.
Telkom, South Africa's biggest telecoms company, was privatised eight years ago with a monopoly over fixed lines.
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Over the past 10-15 years, we saw what could be considered a monopoly around office productivity software.
Once KV had a monopoly to sell 17P it raised the price per dose more than 100-fold.
Financing a monopoly business like London's Underground in this way would make a great deal of sense.
More alarmist analysts think that doing nothing would kill the company and make Boeing a monopoly producer.
And Apple has yet to be found a monopoly and is under no constraint to offer one.
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The first is where there is a monopoly of employers, where there is no competition for the labour.
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The train operators claim that privatising the rail network as a monopoly has given disproportionate power to Railtrack.
Bundling a monopoly product with one that is competitively provided may result in the competitive market being distorted.
Which is something of a problem for a company trying to create a monopoly it wants to exploit.
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Then Ergen was unable to persuade federal regulators to allow him a monopoly over the U.S. satellite-TV market.
He and his fellow members of the masons' guild had a monopoly of stone work in the town.
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