From its roots in a hobbyist subculture populated by a handful of long-haired engineers who hungered for their own machines, the personal computer exploded to create powerful industrial monopolies.
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France, Germany and especially America, are the formidable competitors who, at this moment as foreseen by me in 1844 are more and more breaking up England's industrial monopoly.
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Sen . Dale Bumpers will introduce a bill tomorrow mandating retail competition in the electricity industry, bringing the Senate full square into the debate over how to break up the last of the regulated U . S . industrial monopolies.
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The industrial monopolies Kruger's administration granted became widely derided as corrupt and inefficient, especially the dynamite concession given to Edouard Lippert and a French consortium, which Kruger was forced to revoke in 1892 amid much scandal over misrepresentation and price gouging.
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For three years, Bettman's brain trust has made great strides in marketing a sport whose appeal has long been too narrow, its audience too small for hockey to take its place among the colossal industrial monopolies of professional football, baseball and basketball.
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The sale is the latest in a wave of state asset offerings in Europe as governments move to unload former industrial monopolies and open markets to competition . ( NI ITALY ) U . S . Stocks Decline; Semiconductors Drop on Asia Concern
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But the IMF, which has made Suharto's industrial monopolies a clear target, has clearly decided that the best way to deal with Suharto is to praise his moves toward reform, and reward them with relatively small injections of cash from the $ 43 billion bailout package.
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Many of Europe's major elites also found advantages in formal, overseas expansion : large financial and industrial monopolies wanted imperial support to protect their overseas investments against competition and domestic political tensions abroad, bureaucrats sought government offices, military officers desired promotion, and the traditional but waning landed gentries sought increased profits for their investments, formal titles, and high office.
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The primary antagonists were the American Tobacco Company ( ATC ) ( owned by James B . Duke ), historically one of the largest U . S . industrial monopolies, and the Dark Tobacco District Planters'Protective Association of Kentucky and Tennessee ( PPA ), an association of farmers formed September 24, 1904 in protest of the monopoly ATC practice of paying deflated prices for their product.
