What outsiders hadn't realized at the time was the strain this placed on individual operators.

而那时外界所没有意识到的是个体经营者所承受的压力。

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For utilities providers, deregulation and privatisation allowed individual operators to entertain the idea of being a conglomerate.

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In a field dominated by individual owner-operators, larger chain bars are growing quickly.

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In the new model of advertising, corporations will pay operators for access to individual customers on a transaction basis.

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