Last year the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board, set up to fight the changes, won a suit alleging that the minister of agriculture had broken the law by stripping the board of its monopoly without first holding a plebiscite among farmers.
Tiger Pools has become engulfed in a high-profile corruption case--a reminder why betting is often illegal or a state monopoly in the first place.
The first patented version of Monopoly was launched in the United States in 1935 at the height of Great Depression.
WMS' first networked slot game, Monopoly, came out in 2003 and was a huge success, placing 500 units.
First, they copied the monopoly model of electricity supply pioneered in the West.
My first example was the Chinese near monopoly on the production of rare earths.
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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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For the first seven years Telmex held a monopoly on phone service, and it succeeded in imposing some of the highest prices anywhere in the world. (All bidders were offered a similar competition-free period.) The market opened to rivals in 1997, and Telmex tangled with competitors repeatedly over the high access fees it charged them.
Earlier generations understood this very well: Monopoly, the board game, was for example first developed as a game which explored and explained the economics of Henry George.
First, Google is rapidly consolidating its monopoly position.
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The document first assesses the implications for Market Definition and Monopoly Power of these competitive realities.
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While barbers will need to raise some extra capital to build the shacks, in the long run the owner of the first shack may be able to earn big monopoly rents.
We spent the first two nights without power in NYC, playing Monopoly and card games.
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Deregulation of monopoly industries has created a class of company that for the first time must compete for customers.
In the first place, Sky will no longer have a monopoly on capacity.
First, many transporters enjoy a natural or state-granted monopoly and need to be restrained from exercising it with too much abandon.
The first one out of the gates looks to be Singapore Press Holdings, the monopoly newspaper publisher in the island republic.
When Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, suggested a merger between Gazprom and Ukraine's state gas monopoly, Naftogaz, Mr Yanukovich quipped that Russia would have to give Ukraine half of Gazprom first.
During the first 180 days a generic drug is on the market, the generic company has a virtual market monopoly for its formulation.
The first is a drive sponsored by horse-race tracks and card clubs to end the Indian tribes' monopoly on slot machines.
Miss Megawati, the daughter of Indonesia's first president, Sukarno, had a popular following that threatened, albeit mildly, the government's monopoly on power.
In the U.S., the first generic drug maker to challenge the patents on a branded drug can be granted a six-month monopoly that prevents other copycats from entering the market.
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