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Example sentences for: monopolies

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The ossified state of European telecom monopolies would stun American Webheads.
One of the biggest myths about computer software is that it leads to "natural monopolies."
But the Post shows that it also contains the seeds of greater monopolies: TCI already has a cable monopoly in virtually every one of its service areas, while AT&T already has more than 50 percent of the long-distance market.
Almost single-handedly, Murdoch has modernized the world's media, forcing competition on stagnant businesses, cracking open monopolies and oligopolies, vanquishing "traditions" that were often an excuse for laziness, unleashing the creative destruction of capitalism on an industry that thought itself exempt from it.
In economics textbooks, it is commonplace to observe that vertical integration of monopolies tends to reduce consumer prices--for essentially the same reasons I've given in this column.