51.   The improved Brazilian offer includes a further commitment to end the state monopoly in reinsurance and also makes it more difficult for the government to discriminate against foreign insurers.

52.   The plant was to sell power to the state monopoly and have a guaranteed return.

53.   The state monopoly also runs the C-Network and D-Network analogue mobile phone systems.

54.   The state monopoly retreated from these acquisitions when the government -- tipped off by the telecom-users association --raised anti-competitive questions.

55.   The Szegedi Paprika Co., the successor to a former state monopoly, was recently taken over by the company that makes Pick salami.

56.   These include state monopolies that restrict retail liquor sales and bans on wine sales in food stores.

57.   U.S. sales have grown most in Asia and the former Soviet bloc as state monopolies in those regions have been relaxed.

58.   When soliciting her views on privatizing state monopolies and introducing private pension plans, as he recently did, he calls her baroness.

59.   When the satellite dishes and fax machines arrived, spewing data at thousands of bits per second, information could no longer be a state monopoly.

60.   While researcher Cook questions whether lotteries are a proper way for governments to raise revenue, he concedes that the state monopolies stand to reap continued profits.