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  • THE MONOPOLY GAME ENDED with the news that Caroline and Frank had gotten married in a civil ceremony in Des Moines.†   (source)
  • They trod across the Monopoly game so effectively that there was no hope of recreating where our houses and hotels and tokens might have been.†   (source)
  • I asked him one afternoon at age seven, eyeing him skeptically across the card table where he was letting me win at Monopoly.†   (source)
  • They feared that the church's monopoly on 'truth' threatened academic enlightenment around the world.†   (source)
  • Blood and Roses was a trading game, along the lines of Monopoly.†   (source)
  • It was based on Monopoly, created for the children by an engineer named Oswald Pock who had been deported to Terezin.†   (source)
  • She and my father played Monopoly, ignoring the more brutal squares for each other's sake.†   (source)
  • Complete monopoly.†   (source)
  • Within two months of my dinner at the Barbours', Kitsey and I were seeing each other every day practically —long walks and dinner (sometimes Match 65 or Le Bilboquet, sometimes sandwiches in the kitchen) and talking about old times: about Andy, and rainy Sundays with the Monopoly board ("you two were so mean ...it was like Shirley Temple against Henry Ford and J. P. Morgan ...") about the night she'd cried when we made her watch Hellboy instead of Pocahontas, and our excruciating coat-and-tie nights—excruciating for the little boys anyway, sitting stiffly at the Yacht Club, Coca-Colas with lime, and Mr. Barbour lookin†   (source)
  • He received a game of Monopoly, a razor and a cigarette lighter.†   (source)
  • The two of us spend the remainder of the day designing multicolored Creepy Crawlers plastic toys, and playing Sorry and Monopoly over and over and over again.†   (source)
  • The fact that essential technologies were essentially frozen in place for three of those centuries worked in the Hegemony's favor as its monopoly on the use of farcasters allowed it to apply the modest resources of FORCE at the right place in the required amount of time.†   (source)
  • He recognizes his old Monopoly game being played, the board in two pieces, the racecar missing ever since Sonia dropped it into the baseboard heater when she was little.†   (source)
  • You were defying the monopoly that men like him had held for ages.†   (source)
  • We snuck into each other's rooms by night to trade secrets, argue, commiserate, spy, and continue chess games and monopoly games that had begun days earlier.†   (source)
  • Burnham had given a single photographer, Charles Dudley Arnold, a monopoly over the sale of official photographs of the fair, which arrangement also had the effect of giving Burnham control over the kinds of images that got distributed throughout the country and explains why neat, well-dressed, upper-class people tended to populate each frame.†   (source)
  • We were discussing my day, sitting in our robes at the dining room table, after dinner and baths, playing Monopoly.†   (source)
  • From then on, monasteries had the monopoly of education, reflection, and meditation.†   (source)
  • Myriad has been accused of creating a monopoly, since no one else can offer the test, and researchers can't develop cheaper tests or new therapies without getting permission from Myriad and paying steep licensing fees.†   (source)
  • Ah, the sound of golden Monopoly tokens cascading across a fur rug ...There is nothing sweeter, I promise you.†   (source)
  • In language arts, Mrs. Granger had a monopoly—and a reputation.†   (source)
  • The only one he recognizes immediately is an American: L. Bob Rife, the cabletelevision monopolist.†   (source)
  • She wanted to be able to sit and talk with Kevin, or play Monopoly with him, or simply watch TV with him without feeling the urge to get up from the couch to do something more important.†   (source)
  • A two-story structure dating from the seventeenth century, it was the building where the tobacco monopoly had been located under Spanish rule, and its ruined owners had been obliged to rent it out in bits and pieces because they did not have the money to maintain it.†   (source)
  • The article was written by a columnist who had previously worked for Monopoly Financial Magazine, making a name for himself as one who cheerfully ridiculed everyone who felt passionate about any issue or who stuck their neck out.†   (source)
  • It didn't matter if it was Monopoly or chess inside with my sisters or baseball or basketball outside with my brothers—or if I was only four and the rest of them were far older.†   (source)
  • The Guild's as jealous of its privacy as it is of its monopoly.†   (source)
  • Shaped like box hotels in a Monopoly set, the houses weren't pretty or stylish, but in spring the grass flowed to every porch like green water lapping against the hulls of houseboats, and that was beautiful.†   (source)
  • For why should humans think they had a monopoly on guilt?†   (source)
  • Ranchers who spoke out against this monopoly power were often blackballed, unable to sell their cattle at any price.†   (source)
  • This pattern persisted ever since: Only a few have held the monopoly on initiative because they alone have had the social tools.†   (source)
  • Rudy's father had the porcelain and bathroom fixture monopoly in Addis.†   (source)
  • When we played Monopoly, she always insisted on being banker, then helped herself to multiple loans and 'service fees' for every real estate transaction.†   (source)
  • Xavier himself had a near-monopoly on fastidiousness in Lonesome Dove.†   (source)
  • Closer view: barracks, post exchanges, residences, etc. All buildings the same, whether the Ulysses S. Grant Theater or the General John J. Pershing School I attended, all as alike and featureless as those houses and hotels you buy in Monopoly.†   (source)
  • Everybody stops playing cards and Monopoly, turns toward the day-room door.†   (source)
  • The state is an organization of violence, a monopoly in what it is pleased to call legitimate violence.†   (source)
  • The crewmen at their separate stations went through the standard hundred-headed procedure, the gunner floating alone in the tail turret at the end of a crawlway, the EW officer shoehorned into a cubicle at the rear of the upper deck, and down in the squat black hole Louis Bakey let a yawn come rolling out and looked at the panels, switches and monitors that encased him in a more or less total monopoly of avionic jargon and he half nudged the navigator pressed in next to him.†   (source)
  • In the living room, where the shades were drawn for coolness, Bailey and I played Monopoly on the floor.†   (source)
  • A firm can secure this monopoly power through patents, but that wasn't the case with the second-line tb drugs.†   (source)
  • With a near monopoly on the market, he controlled the docket and bullied the court clerks.†   (source)
  • Well, Ras the Exhorter has had a monopoly in Harlem.†   (source)
  • I explained that we were for a more even distribution of the rewards of certain industries, industries that were already monopolies, and that nationalization might occur in some of those areas.†   (source)
  • Besides, your brother probably has Jamie smoking his Cuban cigars and playing Monopoly with real money by now.†   (source)
  • Like — you can't build bombs or cook or win at Monopoly.†   (source)
  • Samuel Riddle bore a startling resemblance to the illustrated figure on a Monopoly board.†   (source)
  • It holds monopoly on export, don't export.†   (source)
  • I remember we used to play Monopoly and checkers, didn't we?†   (source)
  • Why did my plans for my own future have to depend upon the arbitrary opinion of a selfish monopolist?†   (source)
  • Imagining how to spend freedom: squander it, invest it, use it like Monopoly money.†   (source)
  • Regis considered his attendance a small price to pay for keeping his monopoly on trips to the southern marketplace.†   (source)
  • They were playing Monopoly in the bedroom, but you never know when that's going to go south.†   (source)
  • And daily arguments over Monopoly, cricket, or marital issues that blazed and died on the privacy of this mountain.†   (source)
  • Then she took the lids off the Monopoly box and two jigsaw puzzles.†   (source)
  • In a way it reminds me of a game of Monopoly.†   (source)
  • We played for blood, whether it was Monopoly, dominoes, or card games.†   (source)
  • We now directly import items that we used to purchase through a monopoly.†   (source)
  • Monopolies just don't work well.†   (source)
  • Delivering the mail is a government monopoly.†   (source)
  • And they accuse IG Farben of monopolistic practices!†   (source)
  • In those years prior to the establishment of the T.V.A., the Senator from Nebraska was the nation's most outspoken advocate of public power; and he believed that the "monopolistic power trust" had dictated the nomination of Hoover and the Republican platform.†   (source)
  • Monopoly is the enemy of efficiency.   (source)
  • Palmer opened them: a soccer ball, a book, a pair of sneakers, a Monopoly game.†   (source)
  • Then we played a bunch of cheesy party games like charades and Monopoly.†   (source)
  • She threatens the Circle monopoly and, surprise, the feds find incriminating stuff on her computer.†   (source)
  • My brother had never been invited to play Monopoly.†   (source)
  • Like you had some monopoly on liking her," Takumi answered.†   (source)
  • But it's not like the Nazis had a monopoly on evil.†   (source)
  • But Dahlman got a job with Monopoly Financial Magazine, didn't he?†   (source)
  • His mother played cards and Monopoly with him.†   (source)
  • Conrad spent lots of time counting marbles, putting puzzles together, and playing Monopoly.†   (source)
  • From now until ten o'clock, convent schools will have the monopoly on education.†   (source)
  • Yeah, you know, a monopolist's work is never done.†   (source)
  • Friday afternoon (Good Friday) we played Monopoly; Saturday afternoon too.†   (source)
  • And then the evenings had been swept up in the Monopoly games.†   (source)
  • I saved the Monopoly shoe and then it was gone.†   (source)
  • Monopoly isn't going to survive for long.†   (source)
  • Discussions around the Monopoly board were lively.†   (source)
  • "Buckley," my father called from the adjoining room, "come play Monopoly with me."†   (source)
  • One thing I noticed about these Monopoly nights was a shift in my feelings about Pete.†   (source)
  • He works for Monopoly Financial Magazine, which is owned by the Wennerström Group.†   (source)
  • Janne Dahlman has resigned and starts working at Monopoly Financial Magazine in three weeks.†   (source)
  • My feelings about Pete hadn't lost the shimmer left over from the Monopoly tournament.†   (source)
  • "This shoe was the piece Susie played Monopoly with," he said.†   (source)
  • It's not like small towns have a monopoly on values.†   (source)
  • We don't have a monopoly on the truth, Sonja.†   (source)
  • "I've managed to get pretty close to a monopoly on all held stocks," Tyler said.†   (source)
  • Will federal officials tend to become a monopoly of property owners?†   (source)
  • "Centralization destroys the blight of monopoly," said Boyle.†   (source)
  • There's a Monopoly game going on in the day room.†   (source)
  • I think he is maneuvering for a monopoly over Lunar trade.†   (source)
  • Drinks, dice, and Monopoly money flew everywhere.†   (source)
  • They headed the local branch of Konsum, the state-controlled foodservice monopoly.†   (source)
  • And there are the usual mutterings in Congress about a monopoly.†   (source)
  • Acutes: sit on your side of the day room and wait for cards and Monopoly games to be brought out.†   (source)
  • Just because of the private monopoly of one selfish individual?†   (source)
  • Otherwise, we're just encouraging a monopoly.†   (source)
  • Jim, you will agree, I'm sure, that there's nothing more destructive than a monopoly.†   (source)
  • But it had been a time of great instability for the Thurn and Taxis monopoly.†   (source)
  • I stared at him for a moment, and then said, "I kissed her that night, and I've got a monopoly on that."†   (source)
  • It was the only church built there so far, and many who were not by rights members of that church attended it, as being better than nothing; and it had the only graveyard in town as well, so held a monopoly of the dead as well as of the living.†   (source)
  • Monopoly and stuff.†   (source)
  • No one suggested a game of Monopoly.†   (source)
  • He kept shouting out the answer he was trying to mime, but it turned out he was really good at Monopoly.†   (source)
  • For whatever reason, we were there together, and by the end of the day, when Noah and Simon returned, Hester and I were in her room, playing Monopoly.†   (source)
  • In opposition to his uncle's opinion, he thought that the setbacks in river navigation, always on the edge of disaster, could be remedied only by a voluntary renunciation of the riverboat monopoly that the National Congress had granted to the River Company of the Caribbean for ninety-nine years and a day.†   (source)
  • The Guild monopoly on space travel and transport and upon international banking is taken as the beginning point of the Imperial Calendar.†   (source)
  • "Well, my gut wants to know," Lara said, and only then did I realize what Takumi meant the day we'd showered together—I may have kissed her, but I really didn't have a monopoly on Alaska; the Colonel and I weren't the only ones who cared about her, and weren't alone in trying to figure out how she died and why.†   (source)
  • Optimists and pessimists—not to mention the realists—air their opinions with unflagging energy, and as with everything else, they're all certain that they have a monopoly on the truth.†   (source)
  • I hate Monopoly, but even a capitalist board game was welcome— relief from the more strenuous activities my cousins subjected me to and Hester was either in a rare mood to be calm, or else I rarely saw her without the company of Noah and Simon, around whom it was impossible to remain calm.†   (source)
  • But my saliva glands went into overdrive when I saw the sheer volume of gold—bracelets, necklaces, coins, daggers, rings, cups, Monopoly tokens.†   (source)
  • The damnable Guild monopoly on space would've ruined us if I hadn't planned for this expense long ago.†   (source)
  • No such thing as a perfect monopoly.†   (source)
  • She rolled the dice, bought the last available property, and once again we'd all been trounced by our sweet Grandma, the Monopoly champ.†   (source)
  • We are here today to insist that the Senate's Antitrust Task Force begin an investigation into whether or not the Circle acts as a monopoly.†   (source)
  • The old man's obstinacy seemed natural to them, not because, as it was too easy to say, old age had made him less visionary than he had always been, but because renouncing the monopoly must have seemed to him like throwing away the victories of a historic battle that he and his brothers had waged unaided, back in heroic times, against powerful adversaries from all over the world.†   (source)
  • Voice communications monopoly.†   (source)
  • Once it's mandatory to have an account, and once all government services are channeled through the Circle, you'll have helped create the world's first tyrannical monopoly.†   (source)
  • With a date it signifies Before Guild and identifies the Imperial dating system based on the genesis of the Spacing Guild's monopoly.†   (source)
  • If you don't ante up, you won't get any Thanksgiving dinner, and nobody will play Monopoly with you for a full week.†   (source)
  • You think it's just a coincidence that every time some congresswoman or blogger talks about monopoly, they suddenly become ensnared in some terrible sex-porn-witchcraft controversy?†   (source)
  • Once he figured out all of this Enki/Asherah stuff, he went looking for someone who would pay for it and settled on L. Bob Rife, Lord of Bandwidth, owner of the fiberoptics monopoly, who at that time employed more programmers than anyone else on earth.†   (source)
  • It was a move encouraged by the Spacing Guild, which was beginning to build its monopoly over all interstellar travel, and by the Bene Gesserit who were banding the sorceresses.†   (source)
  • He signed his name and addressed the card to Janne Dahlman, c/o the editorial offices of Monopoly Financial Magazine.†   (source)
  • I would have been eight months pregnant for the coming of Jess Clark, the ponderous focus of witty remarks during all our Monopoly games.†   (source)
  • And there was a wonderful thing that tended to happen, something that felt like poetic justice: every time someone started shouting about the supposed monopoly of the Circle, or the Circle's unfair monetization of the, personal data of its users, or some other paranoid and demonstrably false claim, soon enough it was revealed that that person was a criminal or deviant of the highest order.†   (source)
  • Cot a monopoly to run.†   (source)
  • To begin with, early space travel, although widespread, was largely unregulated, slow, and uncertain, and, before the Guild monopoly, was accomplished by a hodgepodge of methods.†   (source)
  • We've a three-point civilization: the Imperial Household balanced against the Federated Great Houses of the Landsraad, and between them, the Guild with its damnable monopoly on interstellar transport.†   (source)
  • That was the Harold we had discussed during our Monopoly games, the Harold who hid calculating purposes behind foolishness.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife, last of the nineteenth-century monopolists, is shown consulting with his decorator in the captain's quarters.†   (source)
  • Most fascinating of all: a two-year-old background article—"With two empty hands"—about Hans-Erik Wennerström, which she found in the online edition of Monopoly Financial Magazine.†   (source)
  • Five minutes later Blomkvist had evidence that Dahlman had leaked information about the situation at Millennium and kept the editor of Monopoly Financial Magazine updated on which stories Berger was planning for which issues.†   (source)
  • It was one thing, Monopoly nights, to sit around and laugh at or deplore some of the things that Daddy and Harold did or said.†   (source)
  • Pete was an aggressive Monopoly strategist, building houses and hotels every time he could, and letting his liquid assets drop dangerously low.†   (source)
  • I wonder if there is anyone who isn't perked up by the sight of a Monopoly board, all the colors, all the bits and pieces, all the possibilities.†   (source)
  • Play around the Monopoly board matched the accelerated rhythm of the conversation, and it was hard for me to keep track of who owed me what.†   (source)
  • It was Pete, actually, who proposed adding the scores of the games, throwing in bonuses for certain strategies and pieces of luck, and shooting for a million dollars of Monopoly money.†   (source)
  • Since the Monopoly games had ended, Jess didn't come around as regularly, and so there wasn't even the fearsome pleasure of maybe exposing myself to the scrutiny of the others as I handed him cups of coffee or asked idle questions about Harold.†   (source)
  • We talked about playing cards, poker maybe, or bridge, with one person sitting out, but then Rose had an idea, and showed up with an old Monopoly game, and that's how the tournament started, the Million Dollar World Series of Monopoly, that lasted two weeks or so and that none of us could keep away from, in spite of all the work to be done.†   (source)
  • You can have a monopoly for all I care, but if I don't get a steady supply of whisky from you, I'll get it from someone else.†   (source)
  • Sure enough, while the other Monopoly players were sorting their pieces, a pair of gray wolves bounded into the lounge, grabbed the dead man by his legs, and dragged him away, the spear still sticking out of his chest.†   (source)
  • I been coming to Carthage City for nigh on seven years now, and the last four years I've had a monopoly—†   (source)
  • The militia of Bryn Shander could defeat the combined forces of any five of the other nine towns combined, and Cassius's officers held a monopoly on connections to the necessary marketplace in the south.†   (source)
  • True, we weren't bought and sold—but as long as Authority held monopoly over what we had to have and what we could sell to buy it, we were slaves.†   (source)
  • Eventually, all tax resources may become a federal monopoly, excluding and destroying the State governments.†   (source)
  • More than a century ago, during the congressional debate on the Sherman Antitrust Act, Henry M. Teller, a Republican senator from Colorado, dismissed the argument that lower consumer prices justified the ruthless exercise of monopoly power.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, we're not incorporated in the U.S. so they can't technically force me to break up the SAPL or Apollo or any of the other places I'm in a monopoly position.†   (source)
  • It would be wrong to say that Hank's death was caused by the consolidating and homogenizing influence of the fast food chains, by monopoly power in the meatpacking industry, by depressed prices in the cattle market, by the economic forces bankrupting independent ranchers, by the tax laws that favor wealthy ranchers, by the unrelenting push of Colorado's real estate developers.†   (source)
  • High duties also tend to give people who manufacture goods within the country a premature market monopoly.†   (source)
  • McMurphy talked them into making the game interesting by paying a penny for every play dollar the bank issues them; the monopoly box is loaded with change.†   (source)
  • A year later Congress created the Packers and Stockyards Administration (P&SA), a federal agency with a broad authority to prevent price-fixing and monopolistic behavior in the beef industry.†   (source)
  • But to satisfy the private attachments of a dozen, or of twenty men, a few families might end up holding a monopoly of government offices.†   (source)
  • The South wanted industries, and Northern monopolies, abetted by Northern congressmen, wouldn't allow it.†   (source)
  • One gang in Washington is yelling that I am expanding too much and something should be done to stop me, because I am becoming a monopoly.†   (source)
  • If they were alive today, like Upton Sinclair they would be amazed by the monopolies and monopsonies that now dominate the American economy, by the corruption of government officials, and by the wide disparities in wealth.†   (source)
  • You don't have a monopoly on truth!†   (source)
  • Boyle did not catch the tone of mockery, and answered earnestly, "It destroys the blight of monopoly.†   (source)
  • Just look at my balance sheet-and then look at the books of a certain competitor of mine, who's got all the customers, all the raw materials, all the technical advantages and a monopoly on secret formulas-then tell me who's the profiteer!†   (source)
  • That would be monopoly!†   (source)
  • The Unification Board shall then license the use of such patents and copyrights to all applicants, equally and without discrimination, for the purpose of eliminating monopolistic practices, discarding obsolete products and making the best available to the whole nation.†   (source)
  • He would sit by the TV, in his private circle of gray-blue light, watching wrestling or some old detective movie, and his wife and boys would play Password or Chinese Checkers or Monopoly in the yellower light of the diningroom at his back.†   (source)
  • It calls for redistribution, but not nationalization, of land; it provides for nationalization of mines, banks, and monopoly industry, because big monopolies are owned by one race only, and without such nationalization racial domination would be perpetuated despite the spread of political power.†   (source)
  • It calls for redistribution, but not nationalization, of land; it provides for nationalization of mines, banks, and monopoly industry, because big monopolies are owned by one race only, and without such nationalization racial domination would be perpetuated despite the spread of political power.†   (source)
  • 10TH JUROR: Monopoly!†   (source)
  • Ever since your great-grandfather came back half-blind and mutilated from the Civil War and together with my father tried to set up a humble trade manufacturing snuff and chewing tobacco down in Beaufort County—only to have their dreams shattered when they were forced out of business by those piratical devils, Washington Duke and his son, "Buck" Duke—ever since my knowledge of that tragedy I have had an undying hatred for the vicious monopoly capitalism that tramples the little man.†   (source)
  • Drawing heavily on C. Vann Woodward's brilliant study of Tom Watson of Georgia and concentrating on other hagridden folk heroes like "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman and James K. Vardaman and "Cotton Ed" Smith and Huey Long, I demonstrated how democratic idealism and honest concern for the common man were virtues which linked all these men together, at least in their early careers, along with a concomitant and highly vocal opposition to monopoly capitalism, industrial and business fat cats and "big money."†   (source)
  • The postal monopoly belonged to Ohain by right of conquest, and Ohain belonged to Tristero by right of blood.†   (source)
  • The actual locus of power in the monopoly remained uncertain until 1650, when the next male heir, Lamoral Il-Claude-Francis, took over.†   (source)
  • Durrfeld has unbent so naturally that he even feels constrained to utter a vague apology; he should not allow the British and the Dutch to agitate him so, he says to the Professor in a mild voice, forgive the outburst, but surely their monopolistic practices and manipulations of the supply of a natural product like rubber, which all the world should receive equitably, was an abomination.†   (source)
  • Duke Angelo, and masquerading as a special courier of the Thurn and Taxis family, who at the time held a postal monopoly throughout most of the Holy Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • Among these was Leonard I, Baron of Taxis, Gentleman of the Emperor's Privy Chamber and Baron of Buysinghen, the hereditary Grand Master of the Post for the Low Countries, and executor of the Thurn and Taxis monopoly.†   (source)
  • So much that, by 1795, it is even suggested that Tristero has staged the entire French Revolution, just for an excuse to issue the Proclamation of 9th Frimaire, An III, ratifying the end of the Thurn and Taxis postal monopoly in France and the Lowlands.†   (source)
  • Whatever it is, it has the power to murder their riders, send landslides thundering across their roads, by extension bring into being new local competition and presently even state postal monopolies; disintegrate their Empire.†   (source)
  • Toohey acquired a reputation and an unofficial monopoly.†   (source)
  • Do you think integrity is the monopoly of the artist?†   (source)
  • That was all there was to drink in this prohibition state —except beer, but that was a government monopoly and too expensive except on special occasions.†   (source)
  • His business was to sell a product to greenhouses, and this certain product was a monopoly, so his life was easy and he was chauffeured every day in his homburg hat and gloves around the hothouse belt of the city.†   (source)
  • These young men—Hugh Parker, Jim Phelps, and Joe Cathcart, were innocently devoted; they liked her tireless and dominant energy, the eager monopoly of her tongue, her big sincerity and deep kindliness.†   (source)
  • These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class and the upper grades of the working class, had been shaped and brought together by the barren world of monopoly industry and centralized government.†   (source)
  • You get the average baron that we see nowadays, people like Sir Bruce Sans Pitie, who simply go clod-hopping round the country dressed in steel, and doing exactly what they please, for sport It is our Norman idea about the upper classes having a monopoly of power, without reference to justice.†   (source)
  • To which they retorted that the surest way of playing the game of the red robes was to leave to them the monopoly of the death penalty.†   (source)
  • "Look at Gordon Prescott," said Neil Dumont, "and what a sweet little monopoly he's got himself in housing projects and post offices.†   (source)
  • He staged a crusade against a shady streetcar monopoly and caused it to lose its franchise; the franchise was granted to a shadier group, controlled by Gail Wynand.†   (source)
  • There were distinguished men and well-dressed, tight-lipped women; each woman seemed to feel an exclusive proprietorship of the art practiced by her escort, a monopoly guarded by resentful glances at the others.†   (source)
  • The Wynand papers stood against Privilege and for the Common Man, but in a respectable manner that could shock nobody; they exposed monopolies, when they wished; they supported strikes, when they wished, and vice versa.†   (source)
  • It exposed politicians—one step ahead of the Grand Jury; it attacked monopolies—in the name of the downtrodden; it mocked the rich and the successful—in the manner of those who could never be either.†   (source)
  • No. The ten thousand Gopher Prairies had no monopoly of greetings and friendly hands.†   (source)
  • My company's spending big money, and the Government won't let you have a monopoly.†   (source)
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