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This capital city of four million is constantly rattled by noise and stifled by dense traffic.
Today, nobody disputes the argument that Vail's telephone monopoly stifled technological innovation.
In its second ruling this week smiling on corporate consolidation, the FCC said that because companies have begun offering new kinds of service over cable wire--namely high-speed Internet access and local telephone service--competition will be bolstered by changing the ownership laws, not stifled.
The rest of the 75 page section contains a mix of strong writers being stifled (or perhaps pre-emptively stifling themselves) and weak ones being given too much space to say too little.
But unprofitable heavy industry, state monopolies, and opaque bureaucracies slowly stifled growth.