1.   Broadcast station licenses and monopoly cable franchises cost their original owners nothing except legal fees.

2.   Once content to tend their regulated monopoly franchises, utilities and railroads are suddenly conducting their own raucous hostile battles in the wake of deregulation and consolidation.

3.   The suit alleges that Behring illegally exploited his position as the holder of a monopoly franchise.

4.   CASINO magnate Stanley Ho Hung-sun says he is interested in participating in a casino monopoly franchise in Taiwan in conjunction with American gaming interests.

5.   He was also quoted as saying he would be interested in opening a casino operation in Taiwan only if it was a monopoly franchise.