Theodore Roosevelt took on entrenched monopolies, helping small businesses to thrive and competition to flourish.

But while Li Ka-shing has a hot stock, his son may soon acquire one of Hong Kong's largest employers and most entrenched monopolies.

It also opened up the economy to foreign imports in order to increase competition and break up entrenched monopolies [see pp. 37528; 38002].

"We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete."

The Times buys this analysis: "Theodore Roosevelt took on entrenched monopolies, helping small businesses to thrive and competition to flourish.

If the network paradigm is as mature and superior as proponents claim, asks Gates, how can the government deem Microsoft an entrenched monopoly?

A. They are a well entrenched monopoly.

The commission did its job to establish rules for fair competition between entrenched monopolies and and potential competitors.

But the competitive market has gotten a much slower start than anyone - the government, the entrenched former monopolies or, most of all, the new entrants - expected.

Open licensing has a proven track record in the software industry where it has eroded deeply entrenched monopolies and redefined conventional economics.