Sentences with phrase «by public monopolies»

Only if you belief that parent rights are subjugated by public monopolies.

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All this was viewed (by classical economists) as something that government regulators should get rid of, either by not permitting it in price, or by holding the monopolies in the public domain, or by the land itself being either nationalized or taxed.

But by far the bulk of debt was used to buy rival companies, as occurred when MCI bought Sprint, and when European companies bought hitherto public monopolies.

The result is a double - crisis: austerity stemming from debt deflation, while public health, communications, information technology, transportation and other basic infrastructure are privatized by corporate monopolies that raise prices charged to labor and industry.

Americans for Financial Reform and Public Citizen are defending limits on forced arbitration from congressional attack with a delivery all 100 U.S. Senate offices: a mock «Get - Out - of - Jail - Free» card for the banks inspired by the board game Monopoly.

But there is also the reality of monopoly, exercised by large corporate interests which keep the public from knowing what is going on in their own society.

«When both the logic of the market and the logic of the State come to an agreement that each will continue to exercise a monopoly over its respective area of influence, in the long term much is lost: solidarity in relations between citizens, participation and adherence, actions of gratuitousness, all of which stand in contrast with giving in order to acquire (the logic of exchange) and giving through duty (the logic of public obligation, imposed by State law).

Flores said the mass action in front of DA will be followed by a public forum on the impacts of monopoly capitalists to the agriculture sector titled «Going Against the Grain: Resisting the Neoliberal Attacks on Agriculture and the Way Forward to a Food - Secure Future.»

Building an anti press monopoly / Murdoch movement, would chime well with the public's outrage at arbitrary power being exercised by bankers and gov» t institutions.

Nevertheless, Cuomo has been criticized by liberals advocates for not being more forcefully in favor of a Democratic takeover of the chamber this year, which came to a head this week when the governor knocked public schools as a «monopoly» he wants to break by strengthening charter schools.

That pits him against Governor Andrew Cuomo on yet another education issue; the governor has said he hopes to break the public - school «monopoly» by encouraging more competition from charter schools.

The group established that, Kofi Jumah and Amoako Tufuor were the pioneers who raised alarm against the choice of Akufo - Addo by means of peddling horrible insults against Akufo - Addo to the public «We wish to tell Akufo - Addo and his rented clowns that, if they have monopoly over reckless conducts and plotting of evil, we have fair reasoning and common sense.

SOMERSET — Fresh off the stunning approval of a cut - rate electricity deal between a Canadian government - run power monopoly and New York City by the New York State Public Service Commission, local leaders are calling for the deal to be blocked before local jobs are lost.

Asked by Capital for comment Tuesday morning, a spokesman for New York State United Teachers addressed Cuomo's comments about teacher evaluations but initially declined to comment on the governor's likening of public education to a «monopoly.»

Earlier this week Cuomo told the Daily News editorial board that, if he's re-elected, he intends to «to break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» vowing to challenge public school teachers by supporting stricter teacher evaluations and competition from charter schools.

One Cuomo promise was «to break... the only remaining public monopoly,» referring to public schools and teachers unions, by promoting charter schools, private school tuition tax credits, and a new round of teacher evaluations based on Common Core - aligned high - stakes testing.

Macke Raymond, director of Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), and an expert on monopolies in the public and private sectors, made this clear at a 2006 forum organized by the National Alliance for Public Charter Scpublic and private sectors, made this clear at a 2006 forum organized by the National Alliance for Public Charter ScPublic Charter Schools.

Bringing in a «trust buster» to help reinvent a monopoly public school system was hailed by many education reformers (myself included) as a stroke of genius and more proof of Mayor Bloomberg's commitment to radical change.

Of course, this double standard will be ignored by the special interest unions who thrive on a public education monopoly.

Education, in contrast, is by and large a public monopoly.

A small amount of competition in education already exists, but the types of students who stand to benefit the most are shielded from the transformative potential of competition by public school monopolies.

But in some places in California, charter schools have been shut out or severely restricted by districts and teachers» unions that fear competition to the public school monopoly.

With National School Choice Week behind us, the battle — and it is a battle — to free our children from a monopoly by zip - code public education system is being fought on fronts all over the country, and in red and blue states alike, more and more Democrats are breaking ranks and joining Republicans in the fight.

DeVos has long been bullish about the prospects for school choice in its many forms, observing that the ineffectiveness of the public - school monopoly, often ruled by thuggish teachers» unions, has become obvious.

These plaintiffs seek to protect the public schools» monopoly on education by blocking the school house doors to prevent low - income families from taking their children out of public schools in order to attend private schools.

His theory was quite simple: by eradicating the public school monopoly and injecting competition into the public school system, the system would become more flexible and responsive to parents and children.

The charter - bashing report, compiled by the Network for Public Education, whose leadership includes such teacher union acolytes as Diane Ravitch, Anthony Cody, et al, has become a yearly event for the progressive reactionary TPS monopoly crew.

In the past, copyright was a limited boon, designed not to enrich a creator and their children's children a hundred years from now, but rather to allow a creator to profit by granting a temporary monopoly on reproduction, in exchange for their work to be returned to the public after a few years.

In the U.S., electric markets come in three models: wholesale competitive markets such as PJM and CAISO; legacy state - regulated monopoly markets individually governed by regulatory commissions either appointed or elected; and public power systems, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority and Bonneville Power Administration, owned by governments or their consumers.

clean energy innovation improving consumer choice and affordability more efficient use of energy deeper penetration of renewable energy resources wider deployment of «distributed» energy resources micro grids roof - top solar on - site power supplies and storage promote markets advanced energy management enhance demand elasticity and efficiencies empower customers more choice 50 % of its electricity from renewable resources by 2030 business as usual bad public policy clean energy's economic and environmental potential the power industry was headed for trouble rising utility bills growing customer dissatisfaction socially unjust clean energy economy haves - and - have - nots change in culture business model for the whole system moves the electric industry away from a monopoly, top - down and incentive driven system governed by the market emphasizes distributed energy a distributed system platform market exchange microgrids solar energy efficiency distributed energy resources compete to serve the grid pro-consumer pro-innovation markets - based more affordable resilient capital efficiencies encouraging more distributed energy demand response energy efficiency

It stated briefly that it was «not contested» that the fight against alcohol abuse and the protection of public health against the harm caused by such abuse could be pursued as a public interest objective, justifying the operation of a monopoly (para 54).

In this regard Article 102 TFEU is by far the most popular norm to be mated to Article 106 TFEU as the exclusive right mentioned in Article 106 TFEU is easily equated to a statutory monopoly for the public undertaking and thus dominance within the meaning of that provision.

That is, the public value of learning is recognized and protected, by enabling an exception to copyright's exclusive monopoly when it comes to «the purpose of research, private study, education» (as well as parody or satire, criticism or review, and news reporting).

Even though it's a Crown corporation with a monopoly, Manitoba Public Insurance is always trying to improve services to its client base and the legal department tries to follow that by improving the services provided to the corporation, says Michael Triggs, director of legal services with the organization.

Thus, it's fair to conclude from such awful results that the public gets short - changed in the bargain it made with the legal profession by entrusting lawyers with a kind of mass - monopoly to practice law.

Car accident insurance in BC falls under a public monopoly system that is run by ICBC.

It is freakishly rare for an unregulated (by anyone but themselves) title - monopoly body like HRPAO to have a public statute.

Public law schools are funded largely by Canadian taxpayers; and have been subjected to an avalanche of historic criticism; and have also been granted a monopoly to attract students who want access to the legal profession — not to «chart their own paths.»

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

A colleague on a private email discussion group I am involved with made reference to an interesting article in the International Herald Tribune from October 8, 2005, by Joost Smiers and Marieke van Schijndel called «Imagine a World Without Copyright» which posits, in part, that a world without copyright law would free up the public domain and prevent cultural monopolies... [more]

In carving out a set of certain activities for sale by lawyers only, the legal profession protects not only the public but also its monopoly over legal services.

Patents are public documents, issued to inventors by individual states, certifying that the named inventor has been granted a limited monopoly to exclude other persons from working, selling or using an identified invention without the consent or permission of the inventor or her / his assignees or successors - in - title during the lifespan of the patent.

Following her study of paralegals several years later, Paula Pevato observed that there was «substantial evidence... suggest [ing] that the legal profession's hostility toward paralegals is motivated, to a large degree, by a self - serving desire to maintain a monopoly over the delivery of legal services to the public.»

Realtors — by shutting the public out of the MLS system and by refusing to show FSBO listings unless the vendor agrees to pay their commissions — have created a virtual monopoly which EVERYONE who wants to sell a house is practically compelled to deal with at least once or twice in a lifetime.

There are far larger targets than us (oil industry, cola companies, Ticket sales for events (a total monopoly by one firm)-RRB- but we are the public target of choice.