1.   Broadly speaking, monopoly companies can be found guilty of tying if they use their control of one product to make people buy another product.

2.   Cement production in Israel currently is in the hands of a monopoly company, Nesher, which is owned by holding companies Koor Industries Ltd. and Clal Israel Ltd.

3.   Early this year, if things go as state officials hope, the era of the monopoly telephone company will end in Connecticut.

4.   In most markets, the local division serves as the monopoly local phone company, entrenched in a century of tradition.

5.   In many nations, this is complicated by the presence of state-run monopoly phone companies.

6.   Lesser remedies like orders to monopoly companies to cease abusive tactics have proved difficult to police, he said.

7.   Some former state monopoly telephone companies have been too keen on ownership rather than strategic alliances.

8.   Gail, the monopoly gas transmission company, has no access to natural gas, which is produced by ONGC.

9.   Tenaga Nasional, the monopoly national power company, is willing to look into claims of compensation, spokesman Syed Hidzam Osman said.

10.   The government has said it will liberalize insurance by breaking up its monopoly insurance company.