With fiscal cliff worries likely to keep the market choppy for a while, you may want to ease into this position over the course of the next few weeks.

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In monopolistic cases, according to Almunia, the commission must consider barriers to entry to competitors, whether a company can use its dominant position to affect the status of other companies, and the ease of consumers to switch between services.

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This gave me the ability to find an executive position with flexibility and autonomy, which helped ease the burden of guilt and pain when I first left my baby boy -- and later my baby girl -- to go back to work full time.

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The ease with which people can make use of Twitter and Facebook gives them a potentially dominant position in opinion forming.

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