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Assuming a competitor would capture volume slowly and would have to charge rates no higher than the incumbent, the competitor would have to be ready to sustain large loses before it could break even.
A short piece says there is a "child famine" in the Great Plains: North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming are not producing enough children to sustain their small towns.
A scheme so inconsistent with accepted separation-of-powers principles is an insufficient basis to sustain or uphold the restriction on speech.
A handful of critics complain that the "nincompoopery is difficult to sustain over the course of an hour and a half" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). (Click to read the rest of Edelstein's review.)