1.   True, local business is not entirely absent but on the whole, foreign operators have been the first to benefit.

2.   Among the departments to go is the Energy Ministry whose bureaucracy, foreign operators complained, was delaying the allocation of new exploration and production permits.

3.   Federal law prohibits the operation of lotteries across state lines and outlaws lotteries by foreign operators in the United States because they are unregulated.

4.   Foreign operators appear to be unfazed.

5.   Monday, the central bank banned Internationale Nederlanden Groep of the Netherlands, the most significant foreign operator in Romania.

6.   Taking money from foreign operators is not new.

7.   The FCC and the Department of Justice are also evaluating whether the U.K. market provides sufficient competition for foreign operators.

8.   The official plan is still to open the market to two foreign operators this year, a spokeswoman for the Communications Ministry said.

9.   The plan calls for two foreign operators to compete with Telecom.

10.   Typically, OPEC members direct foreign operators of joint venture projects in their countries to reduce production first, before looking to their own production.