Since the companies applied for permission to merge in March 2007, broadcasters, consumer rights groups and others have assailed the deal as a monopoly-maker.
Yesterday the state natural gas monopoly, Gazprom, signed a deal to take control over the country's largest foreign investment, the massive Sakhalin II Gas Complex in the Russian Far East.
To deal with unemployment by eliminating monopoly unionism, featherbedding, and inflexibilities in the labor market, and be prepared, where residual unemployment persists, to cope with it locally, placing the political and humanitarian responsibility on the lowest feasible political unit.
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But Ergen could afford to bid generously for Hughes because the deal would have given him a monopoly.
MWD, which has long relished its monopoly over southern California, is predictably not keen on the deal.
They announced they had clinched a deal on the issue of France's state electricity monopoly and made progress on other matters.
But Google's competitor Microsoft is already trying to get the federal government to block the deal, claiming it will give Google an online advertising monopoly.
But Google's competitor Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) is already trying to get the federal government to block the deal, claiming it will give Google an online advertising monopoly.
Financing a monopoly business like London's Underground in this way would make a great deal of sense.
The EU summit in Barcelona last month ended with an agreement on a major liberalisation of energy markets - a deal which France had threatened to block to protect its giant state electricity monopoly, Electricite de France.
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce rejected the deal in a high-profile test of its then-new anti-monopoly law.
He inherited a lumbering giant plagued by overcapacity, sloppy service and an unwieldy acquisition--six years earlier, Union Pacific had finally succeeded in buying rival Southern Pacific, a deal the company had originally completed in 1901, only to see it reversed by a monopoly-fearing Supreme Court in 1913.
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