1.   Analysts said more share buybacks and other actions are expected as investors pressure companies to share gains from their protected market franchises.

2.   -- The opening of previously protected markets and the sell-off of poorly managed but potentially profitable state-owned industries.

3.   A less protected financial market might have helped prevent the bubble because it would have created more competition Japanese capital.

4.   But Beijing would also have to open its own protected markets.

5.   By acquiring Korean automakers, American companies may be able to gain better access to the highly protected Korean market, and build cars with cheaper parts.

6.   Formerly protected markets have opened, and state-owned enterprises have been put up for sale.

7.   France, which still retains an electricity monopoly, favors a more protected market.

8.   Gone are the sleepy days of the traditional economy based on long-term workers, protected markets and minor technological changes, Mandel writes.

9.   Japan is willing to end export subsidies, but wants to keep its protected market for rice, which sells at six times the world price.

10.   The commission and many private economists expected that by prying open protected markets, electricity prices would immediately fall.