1.   All the artificial constraints of maintaining a regulated monopoly mean that it is not in the best interests of the consumer.

2.   Because utilities are run as heavily regulated monopolies, state officials set prices for electricity.

3.   Before the phone business became a regulated monopoly, providers competed, as they do today.

4.   A regulated monopoly gets the job done without making undue demands on my time.

5.   But as the local phone companies move from being regulated monopolies to players in a competitive market, many analysts believe there is plenty of room for additional cutting.

6.   But competitive markets create jobs much faster than heavily regulated monopoly markets.

7.   Critics respond that this says more about the corporate culture of a regulated monopoly than it says about the nature of telephone technology.

8.   He says the pricing issue is convoluted after years of regulatory rate-setting that involved excruciating arguments over how to give regulated monopolies a fair return on investment.

9.   Instead, we should invoke the antitrust laws to reflect the real world by turning Windows into a regulated monopoly.

10.   It was given the right to invest in energy-related businesses, but only through subsidiaries of its regulated monopoly, not through forming an unregulated holding company.