On the other hand, if you and your mate are stuck at Monopoly level and argue about money and one or the other of you hesitantly capitulates to the other about how you save, spend, or invest money, how durable is that agreement in your experience?

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Where Bert Danner falters in his analysis is in assuming that the mobile platform battle will play out like desktop computing, where network effects yielded near monopoly-level dominance to Microsoft.

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While the new regime ends NSI's monopoly over the award of top-level domain names, the Commission is concerned that highly restrictive provisions in its licensing agreements with companies wanting to enter the market for domain-name registration will discourage competition.

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However, their generations of monopoly status and their overregulation by government have led to a level of complacency and entitlements that has them naturally relying on government to preserve their business model and the status quo.

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Our government must also level the playing field for all alcohol fuels that break the monopoly of gasoline, to lower both gasoline prices and carbon emissions.

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"Instead of playing favorites, our government should level the playing field for all alcohol fuels that break the monopoly of gasoline, both lowering gasoline prices and carbon emissions, " he said.

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These cases also cover the gamut of federal agencies and departments, along with a few examples on the state and local level, showing that no segment of our government holds a monopoly on failure on this issue.

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One positive development: In 1999, government passed a new anti-monopoly law, which provides for a business supervisory commission to help ensure a level playing field, a move that theoretically helps the disadvantaged and largely punchless community of small businesses.

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Meanwhile, privatization of government owned entities is probably not feasible in the near term, but the government likely will move steadily toward the creation of a level-playing field by removing input cost subsidies and reducing the monopoly power, allowing for newcomers in the market that can address these gaps.

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