If the goal were to maximize auction revenue and profits then the right approach would be to bundle all our spectrum and sell it to one firm, which would be willing to pay an enormous price to have a monopoly in the lucrative market with no possible threat of competition.
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Granarolo would then have a near-monopoly in fresh milk in the Italian market, but Giovanni Alemanno, the agriculture minister and a member of the far-right National Alliance, seems inclined to support the creation of a national champion.
We don't have a monopoly on all wisdom in the world, and we can live in that world very successfully.
But Plaid did not have a monopoly on historic moments in February.
If a monopoly does have a lock in which restricts your access to the market then yes, it can indeed be just and righteous that the authorities intervene.
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One fact that may have escaped Congress' attention in the heat of passing Sarbanes-Oxley is that New York does not have a monopoly on raising capital.
Akinkugbe says that two other African countries -- South Africa and Morocco -- have a version of Monopoly, but Lagos is the only city in the continent to have its own edition.
But, as in other industries, they no longer have a monopoly.
Markets in which network effects are important have a tendency towards monopoly.
In the first place, Sky will no longer have a monopoly on capacity.
Kodak doesn't have a monopoly on openness, because openness has become a requirement for most companies in a high-technology business.
If the government is going to have a monopoly over the distribution of canned goods, it should exercise that power in a way that minimizes disruptions to the broader economy.
In the United States, we have had a Federal Reserve currency monopoly essentially since about 1940.
Broadcasters have lost their historic monopoly on music transmission, and they now exist in a more competitive environment.
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Graphics software company Adobe and security specialist Symantec have both used Microsoft's status as a monopoly to jab at Microsoft, particularly in Europe.
Rather as in the economic sphere competing private companies tend to produce wealth and activity, whereas monopoly firms have the opposite effect, so in the religious sphere competing sects generate a ferment of activity and increased levels of belief, whereas state churches produce indifference.
There is no reason why the state should be paying salaries for people who have not shown up to work in decades or be hostage to a taxi union keen on maintaining their monopoly at the expense of tourism, which comprises almost the whole Greek export sector.
Since the companies applied for permission to merge in March 2007, broadcasters, consumer rights groups and others have assailed the deal as a monopoly-maker.
In another case, and one that proves Republicans have no monopoly on ethics problems, a former top aide to Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) has pleaded guilty to charges and is cooperating with prosecutors.
The PYCO oil mills have quite a monopoly on acquiring seed from the region's gins, which would appear to give the farmers little power in marketing their seed.
As players advance, they have to abide the slings and arrows of entrepreneurial fortune through cards similar to ones players might find in a game of Monopoly.
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