With half-off rides, mytaxi seems eager to corner the market.
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One start-up is attempting to corner the market on obscure vegetables.
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Why should lonely nursing home residents corner the market on artificial friends?
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Wahlburgers restaurant has filed legal docs to corner the market on Wahl Sauce.
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We're not trying to corner the market, we're there to provide another option for families.
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Is it, as many would contend, an effort to corner the market on raw materials?
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The company recently acquired its competitor Softcup, allowing it to corner the market on menstrual discs.
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Royce West (D) are both trying to corner the market on Texas's not-insubstantial African American vote.
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Conservatives should let Sanders and Clinton corner the market on bad tax policy cloaked in ugly class warfare rhetoric.
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Maybe MoviePass will blow up, expand out to other countries, corner the market, and find a way to be profitable.
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Offering free cameras is a clear strategic move by the company to corner the market and create vendor lock-in.
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Bill Cosby, eat your heart out ... because a retro pudding company is now making its move to corner the market.
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Because the biggest agencies tended to represent the biggest names, this approach helped them corner the market on packaging revenue.
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That's allowed GoPro to corner the market on action cameras, but most can run $200 to $300 on the low end.
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Consider that the Hunt brothers tried to corner the market in silver and lost almost $2 billion in family wealth trying.
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This way, the iHeadPhone will corner the market on wired silent discos and shared-airplane-tiny-screen-Game-of-Thrones viewings.
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In the past year or so, the beauty company CoverGirl has shown it is determined to corner the market on diversity.
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By announcing first, Mr. Phillips appears to be trying to corner the market on having the main pro-Booker super PAC.
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Their sheer size and ability to corner the market on talent makes almost every strategic decision they make an industry-wide declaration.
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Bankers say this is still too expensive and if the Chinese can build one for $1 billion, they would corner the market.
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Cooper did that interview, too, as he seeks to corner the market on interviewing shapely women who have been friendly with Trump.
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If you corner the market for something, you can jack up the price; others will have no choice but to buy from you.
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The business-savvy rocker wanted to corner the market on the "devil horns" hand gesture, a fixture among heavy metal audiences for decades.
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The opportunity to corner the market was there a decade ago, but SpaceX abandoned that program in favor of rockets with heavier payloads.
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And in a $15.3 billion deal announced on Monday, Intel moved to corner the market on how much of that technology is developed.
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I mean you can't sort of corner the market on creativity, so there's a lot of great ideas out there, great teams out there.
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If he had tried to keep it a secret and corner the market, competitors would have torn his devices apart and quickly copied them.
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Kanye West's crusade to corner the market for his Sunday Service gear just got shot down by the trademark gods ... of the U.S., anyway.
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"They just got greedy—they thought, 'If we can knock off our competitors, we can corner the market on both servers and mitigation,'" Walton says.
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Whereas before two or three suppliers dominated supply, Crown Agents have brought in almost 30, thus defeating the tricks previously used to corner the market.
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Established tech giants like Sony and HTC quickly jumped in to cut off Oculus before it could corner the market on the next big boom.
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LG is continuing its quest to corner the market on ultra high-end handsets with a new entry in its Signature Edition series, via 2800to235Google.
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Hybrid Air hopes to attract customers, and corner the market, in areas ranging from humanitarian aid delivery to cargo shipments in hard to reach places.
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Facebook, Google, Sony and others are all slated to release VR headsets this year in a bid to corner the market of this perennially futuristic technology.
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We see a thug selling buckets of water, at ludicrous prices; could he have thrown the corpse into the well, in a bid to corner the market?
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Marvel's upcoming teen drama Cloak & Dagger just got its first trailer, showing off the kind of angst and young romance Freeform is trying to corner the market on.
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While it was anticipated that Disney would corner the market on streaming Marvel films, the exclusive streaming of Avengers: Endgame will likely prove a massive draw for customers.
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They thought if they could corner the market that this was going to be the way to do it; it was the way the technology was being driven.
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Here in the university's Davey Risk Management and Insurance Program, 13 upperclassmen are underwriting those pianos and fellow students who seek to corner the market on fleece blankies.
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But both Comcast and Disney would argue that there are enough content producers — Amazon, Apple and other digital players — that there's little danger they would corner the market.
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Garfield) to corner the market in lots on a Polynesian island with the help of the title character (Manu Tupou), whom they intend to make a puppet ruler.
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With loose cultures, they tend to be more disorganized and have a host of self-regulation failures — they have the opposite issue — but they corner the market on openness.
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Thanks to Mr. Palmer's celebrity, Mr. McCormack was able to quickly corner the market for athlete endorsements, attracting other stars and divining profitable pricing models for a nascent business.
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This explains why Senator Ted Cruz of Texas has recently canvassed in parts of Brooklyn and the Bronx, hoping to corner the market on some small, Democratic-leaning districts.
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But while tight states produce less creative output, their stricter social order allows them to corner the market on manufacturing, which requires discipline and rule-orientation to be effective.
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Congo provides over half of the world's cobalt, a by-product of copper used in electric cars, and if Glencore cannot mine it, Chinese firms could corner the market, they argue.
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Such a pill would bypass the patent issues that allow Mylan to corner the market on the epinephrine injector, but there is a host of other issues standing in the way.
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In terms of practicality, Netflix's attempt to corner the market on its own data is an attempt to block out anybody else who claims to have viewership data for the service.
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But Festo continues to corner the market on unsettling and slightly creepy robots with a machine that can create giant webs and even 3D cocoons that could easily hold a human hostage.
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Kanye West wants to be holier-than-thou when it comes to hawking apparel embossed with his now-famous Sunday Service, because he's asking the feds to allow him to corner the market.
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While WhatsApp focuses on simplicity and Facebook Messenger delves into commerce, Snapchat could corner the market on vivid, rich media chat with the help of stickers made from digital versions of your face.
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New York's seedy sex trade is facing new challenges as California's rising porn lords try to corner the market, amateurs and pedophiles take advantage of the VHS revolution and the AIDS epidemic spreads.
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Workers at Kitty Hawk and Opener don't know whether Page is simply hedging his bets with multiple aircraft, or embarking on a bold attempt to corner the market for flying cars as it emerges.
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Removing all subsidies is also not an option since it will affect the U.S energy security; not to mention that it might allow fossil fuels to corner the market with their enormous financial resources.
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Coupled with their close relationships to the suppliers, which they get a nice little assist from their investments from Chinese tech giant Oppo, the company has a one-two punch to quickly corner the market.
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DNA sequencing company Illumina is purchasing Pacific Biosciences for $1.2 billion in an effort to corner the market in cutting-edge genetic research, Illumina CEO Francis deSousa announced in an interview with Forbes that published Thursday.
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Hydra meanwhile had chemists working for its shops cooking up these novel substances, and a direct line to precursor suppliers in China, allowing it to corner the market in poorer areas where synthetics are more popular.
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The rush to corner the market on old bones in some "understudied" place or time period has placed a high premium on virtually all samples, creating perverse incentives for researchers to procure these scarce, nonrenewable resources.
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Flush with cash, Nike now tries to corner the market on big-name basketball players — Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook also have big Nike contracts — while also trying to tie up as many other players as possible.
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"Facebook wants to be able to certify identity in a variety of areas of life just as it has been trying to corner the market on identify verification on the web," Siva Vaidhyanathan told Slate in an interview.
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There is no carrot the city can offer that can compete with a company willing to lose $5.2 billion this quarter, or the $20 billion it lost in the decade before, just so it can corner the market.
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It is the premier supplier of chips to modern data centers, bought Mobileye in a $15.3 billion deal to corner the market on the technology that underlies autonomous cars, and is looking to make inroads in artificial intelligence.
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We already know the following about PBMs: they collect legalized kickbacks, they help themselves to millions of Medicaid dollars, and their maneuvering puts independent pharmacies out of business as the big chains, allies to the PBMs, corner the market.
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Remember: The reason companies are racing to develop the technology and corner the market is not necessarily because there's anything in it for you—they're just hoping to cash in on the enormously lucrative transactions industry that's currently monopolized by others.
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As long as no one can corner the market in video, and as long as audiences are still going to say, "I want some of that, I want some of that, I want some of that," it's going to be expensive.
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Notably, many of the items aren't about company size or breakups; they're about the need to crack down on certain types of corporate conduct, like "predatory pricing," or charging below cost to drive competitors out of business and corner the market.
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And then you look at, they knew he had Russian operatives in the country, and that was their goal to corner the market, and they had an informant inside telling them about everything they&aposre doing, bribery, kickbacks, extortion, all of those.
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In the fall of 1991, Mr. Powell, then an assistant Treasury secretary, was summoned before Congress to explain how the government had failed to prevent an elaborate scheme by a bond trader at Salomon Brothers to corner the market in some Treasury securities.
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These sources say PMF groups use their growing influence — and sometimes, according to some witnesses, intimidation — to corner the market and control transport of metal from damaged cities such as Mosul to Kurdish-run northern Iraq where it is bought and melted into steel.
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Instead, he wants to introduce a system that focuses on expanding direct research grants and subsidies for development, and offering robust cash rewards for successful development of new products, so that drug companies have more incentive to create more helpful products rather than corner the market with existing ones.
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Fresh from raising $275 million this August at around a $1 billion valuation, Deliveroo is now taking the next step in its bid to corner the market in Europe and other markets for high-end, high-concept restaurant food delivery; and turn the Deliveroo business profitable in the process.
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These are (more than) billion dollar questions, and Uber's corner-the-market-at-all-costs strategy is a gamble that will go down in the history blogs one way or another: Will money-sucking human drivers bleed the company dry before robotic reinforcements safely free it of its reliance on human labor?
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In between beating on farangs on the seminar circuit, Yod could always do some R&R at the Lee Strasberg Academy in New York and return to Thailand as a method actor (with optional perfect English) and corner the market in monosyllabic bad guy roles (because bad guys always have the best lines).
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The goal of the game is similar to the original, players are still working towards forming a Monopoly, but with this version of the game it's to corner the market on a traditional arts and crafts, and then set up shops to sell your wares to fellow players whenever they land on your part of the board.
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While the various generations of the old guard—your Voivods, your At The Gateses, and now, your High on Fires—continue to corner the market on media attention and reap a vast percentage of metalheads' overall affection, it's also a better time to be young and in a metal band than any other time outside of perhaps the early 80s (assuming you had a tape deck and stamp hookup).
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While similar donor dynamics are playing out in other affluent liberal enclaves, such as Silicon Valley and Hollywood, the donor chase is especially early and intense here because, for the first time since at least 2120, there is no prohibitive front-runner to corner the market on all that New York campaign cash, a role that Hillary Clinton had played in the last two open Democratic nominating contests.
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As sales later proved, we passed up an opportunity of a lifetime to corner the market on brazilianite.
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"Corbis & Copyright?: Is Bill Gates Trying to Corner the Market on Public Domain Art?" , Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, vol. 16, p.
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This expansion will add Executives as part of the company which can be used to market the drugs produced by the player's production lines, as well as to try to manipulate and corner the market.
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In the late 1950s, United States onion farmers alleged that Sam Seigel and Vincent Kosuga, Chicago Mercantile Exchange traders, were attempting to corner the market on onions. Their complaints resulted in the passage of the Onion Futures Act, which banned trading in onion futures in the United States and remains in effect .
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Retrieved July 20, 2013.Weinberger, Joshua (April 9, 2003). "Tibco: Riding the Bus The Palo Alto, Calif., Company—Famed for Its Enterprise Application Integration Capabilities—Is Trying to Corner the Market in the Real-Time Distribution of Business Information Read What Real-Life Customers Have to Say About What Their Deployments Were Like, and What the Results Have Been".
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Mansfield agrees to marry Fisk out of gratitude, but really loves Boyd. Fisk's greed grows beyond all reason and he tries to corner the market in gold. When Fisk ignores Boyd's warnings, Boyd turns against him, worried that the resulting panic threatens the financial system of the whole country. The federal government finally intervenes by releasing its gold reserves, bankrupting Fisk in the process.
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In January 1825, Edward took advantage of a cotton shortage in England to charter a schooner in order to get to Charleston, South Carolina, ahead of his competitors and corner the market in cotton. This was the turning point in the company. In 1827, the company started a line of packets sailing between New York and Veracruz on the Mexican coast. The line prospered.
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Meanwhile, Jadwin continues wheat trading and grows unbelievably richer by the day. He discovers that he is in the position to do the impossible – corner the market. The game for him has lost its fun, however, and is taking a serious toll on both his mental and physical health. He cannot concentrate on anything other than counting bushels of wheat and cannot sleep for his nerves won’t let him.
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However, Dargon sought to corner the market, and in 1861 he brought suit against a French inventor Martinache, charging invasion of patent. The trial that ensued was a short but bitter fight. The end result was a loss to Dargon, who went on to quickly issue an appeal. The court held up on the lower court decision revoking Dargon’s original patent and thus taking away the monopoly Dargon sought.
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They realize the Dukes will obtain the report early to corner the market on frozen concentrated orange juice. On New Year's Eve, the four board Beeks' train, intending to switch the original report with a forgery that predicts low orange crop yields. Beeks uncovers their scheme, and attempts to kill them, but is knocked unconscious by a gorilla being transported on the train. The four disguise Beeks with a gorilla costume and cage him with the real gorilla.
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In 1985 George came out of retirement and founded the George A. Tomasso Construction Corporation in New Britain. The firm did little work until 1991 when it began a meteoric rise to be the largest road contractor in Connecticut by 1993. To corner the market the corporation aggressively underbid their competitors, often bidding well under state estimates for the work. Between 1991 and 1993 the Corporation was awarded a third of all state road, bridge, and highway construction contracts.
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The Hunt brothers began their attempt to corner the market of silver in 1973, secretly buying silver contracts. By 1974 they had contracts for 55 million ounces of silver, 9% of all silver stores. They took delivery, placing 40 million ounces in Switzerland and the remainder near the New York and Chicago markets. By 1975 they used Great Western, which they bought the previous year, to buy up commodities; the company had 21 million ounces of contracts by mid-1976.
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Dating the wealthy socialite would prove very beneficial, as Harlan is after stock in ELQ. He makes the mistake of angering Monica Quartermaine, Lucy Coe, and Tracy, who drug him and hold him captive overnight at the Quartermaine mansion. Barrett, Leopold Taub, Faison, and Lord Ashton later form a cartel corner the market on international trade with the use of a dangerous carcinogen, carbon disulfide. This toxin is manufactured at a canning operation uses as an elaborate ruse for their true purpose.
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In 1907, the Knickerbocker entered into a deal organized by speculators F. Augustus Heinze and Charles W. Morse to corner the market of the United Copper Company. On Tuesday, October 15, 1907, their plan failed spectacularly when the share price of United Copper collapsed. Heinze's brokerage firm failed on October 17, and he was forced to resign as president of the Mercantile National Bank. On October 19 Morse was forced out of the banks with which he had been associated.
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Among her high-profile cases was the matter of the Hunt Brothers attempt to corner the market in silver in the 1970s. She made partner at Arnold & Porter and eventually rose to be the head of the firm's derivatives practice. Born was among the first female attorneys to systematically address inequities regarding how the laws treated women. Born and another female lawyer, Marna Tucker, taught what is considered to have been the first “Women and the Law” course at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law.
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He finds a suit belonging to William Batchelor (MacQuarrie), a broker who is cooling off at a pool, and with the broker's business cards he passes himself off as Batchelor. He meets John Bartlett (Campeau) and his daughter Billie (Daw) and promptly falls in love. Her father is also a stock broker who has been nicked by Batchelor. An attempt is made to corner the market while Jerry is being entertained, but he foils the plotters, falls heir to a fortune, and wins the love of Billie.
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In 1928, Ryan and Rockefeller aggressively speculated on Anaconda shares by manipulating the supply of copper (reducing supply to corner the market), causing shares to go up at first; at which point they sold, which caused stocks to fall; then buying them back. Known today as a "pump and dump", at the time the actions were not illegal and took place frequently. Anaconda was producing copper at such a rate they had tremendous stockpiles. To control prices, the company only sold the requested supply.
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The 1907 panic began with a stock manipulation scheme to corner the market in F. Augustus Heinze's United Copper Company. Heinze had made a fortune as a copper magnate in Butte, Montana. In 1906 he moved to New York City, where he formed a close relationship with notorious Wall Street banker Charles W. Morse. Morse had once successfully cornered New York City's ice market, and together with Heinze gained control of many banks—the pair served on at least six national banks, ten state banks, five trust companies and four insurance firms.
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Impressed with the young man, Laemmle sent him to Cuba to make one-reel shorts with his new stars, Mary Pickford and Owen Moore, out of the reach of Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company-—the trust that was attempting to crush all independent production companies and corner the market on film production. Ince's output, however, was small. And, although he tackled many different subjects, he was strongly drawn to westerns and American Civil War dramas. Clashes between the trust and independent films became exacerbated, so Ince moved to California to escape these pressures.
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Friedlander was born in Oldenburg, Germany, but as a child moved to Charleston, South Carolina, where he spent his boyhood. In 1849, he moved to California during the gold rush. He had poor luck mining in Yuba County, but within a few years he went into mercantile trade and was able to corner the market on flour for the mining camps. Even that venture failed one time, but through his personal reputation for honesty in business he was able to maintain his credit and build the business back up.
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Comet had made strategic errors with its home computer business, and its decision to stop selling computer games had allowed competitors to corner the market. Trading at a loss, and with considerable leasehold commitments, analysts suggested that both Comet and Woolworths, with "weak retail strategies" of "cheap and cheerful", might be sold by Kingfisher. Kingfisher's chairman Sir Geoff Mulcahy, described their performance as "unsatisfactory" and said "We have got two problem areas, Woolworths and Comet." John Richardson, an analyst at NatWest bank, warned that "very substantial rationalisation and reorganisation" was required at Comet.
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Dargon sought to corner the market yet again, this time in a different manner, buying the Martinache for the price of $6,000, a substantial amount for the time. On July 18, 1861, M. Berthier, an employee of Dargon received a Patent on a new process. This new reader consisted of “cementing a thick glass plate to each end of a small block of optical glass. The entire assembly was then placed in a grinding jig which transformed the flat end- plates into convex lenses, each focused on the image borne by the opposite plate.
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Some calamities are not tradeable. Most tradeable calamities have consequences to other players and generally the player who traded the calamity is exempt from being chosen. Once your civilization accumulates enough commodities, you can trade them with your opponents in order to corner the market on a particular commodity and increase its value. By creating sets of two or more of the same commodity, the value of the commodity increases since the set is worth the imprinted number (1 to 9) times the square of the number of cards the set consists of.
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The plot revolves around Laura Dearborn, a young woman being courted by three men: Curtis Jadwin, Sheldon Corthell, and Landry Court. She married Jadwin, who over time loses interest in her as he gets more involved in wheat speculation at the Chicago Board of Trade. As his risky investments start to lead him to ruin, Laura reunites with Corthell, but she eventually rebuffs him. Jadwin's fortunes turn as he is able to corner the market and ruin even good friends, but in time his luck runs out, and he is ruined.
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The two stations operated under a management agreement between DR Media LLC and C.R.S. Radio Holdings.Michael Futch, "ESPN Sports Talk Returns to WCIE," The Fayetteville Observer May 7, 2006; Michael Futch, "Local sports plays out on the radio," "The Fayetteville Observer" June 29, 2010. On February 22, 2016, as it became clear that Andrulonis's Twin Tiers efforts had failed to make a significant impact (much less corner the market) against the established and stronger-signaled competition there, he announced he was buying back WFAY and WFBX as the company returned its focus to the Carolinas.
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The Hunts lost over a billion dollars through this incident, but the family fortunes survived. They pledged most of their assets, including their stake in Placid Oil, as collateral for the rescue loan package they obtained. However, the value of their assets (mainly holdings in oil, sugar, and real estate) declined steadily during the 1980s, and their estimated net wealth declined from $5 billion in 1980 to less than $1 billion in 1988. In 1988, the brothers were found responsible for civil charges of conspiracy to corner the market in silver.
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In 1907, after its legal battles with Amalgamated had finally been settled, Retrieved on September 16, 2008. United Copper again found itself the center of a scandal: in October, F. Augustus Heinze's brother, Otto Heinze, devised a scheme to corner the market in United Copper stock. The Heinzes owned a large share of the company and Otto believed that many of these shares had been loaned out to investors hoping to short sell the stock. Short sellers borrow, or make arrangements to borrow, the stock of a company, which they then sell at current prices.
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Reagan's character, Dan McCloud, is an American (described as a "soldier of fortune" in the publicity for the picture's release"Orpheum Slates Banana Bonanza", The Spokesman-Review, March 11, 1953.) who becomes the foreman of a Central American banana plantation. Learning that his employer, Lukats, is corrupt and trying to corner the market, McCloud joins with one of the smaller growers (played by Rhonda Fleming) to organize the workers and stop Lukats' scheme.Michael Thomas Carroll, Popular Modernity in America: Experience, Technology, Mythohistory (SUNY Press, 2000), , pp. 199-200. Excerpts available at Google Books.
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Clark spends a few days in Smallville and gets closer with Lana and during a picnic, Superman saves Ricky from being killed by a combine harvester. Infuriated by Colombia's refusal to do business with him, Ross orders Gus to command Vulcan, an American weather satellite, to create a tornado to destroy Colombia's coffee crop for the next several years, allowing Webster to corner the market. Gus travels to Smallville to use the offices of WheatKing, a subsidiary of Webscoe, to reprogram the satellite. Although Vulcan creates a devastating storm, Ross's scheme is thwarted when Superman neutralizes it, saving the harvest.
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Tongs attempted to corner the market on criminal activities, especially anything that would bring in a nice profit, such as prostitution, opium, gambling, and forcing Chinese merchants to pay "protection fees." One interesting aspect of the tongs was that each organization had two to three fluent English speakers, who served a variety of functions for the tong such as skimming local newspapers for mentions of their group, so they could inform their fellow members. They also dealt with the "foreigner" lawyers and Americans if the need arose. Membership numbers varied from as few as 50 to as many as 1,500 members in 1887.
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A cattle drover turned Wall Street banker and broker Daniel Drew at first loaned $2 million to the railroad, and then acquired control over it. He amassed a fortune by skillfully manipulating the Erie railroad shares on the New York Stock Exchange. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who set his mind on building a railroad empire, saw multiple business and financial opportunities in railways and decided in 1866 to corner the market on Erie by silently scooping the Erie railroad stock. After succeeding, Vanderbilt permitted Drew to stay on the board of directors in his former capacity as a treasurer.
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Then in 1529 Ambrosius Höchstetter tried to engross the whole quicksilver stock in a cartel; this failed attempt to corner the market led to his bankruptcy (1529) for 800,000 gulden, for which he would die in prison. Rising prices bring out a hidden supply, and the size of the required investment had become too large for even the greatest merchant-banking house to monopolize, as the Fuggers discovered with their attempt on the copper market. Figures representing the enormous profits of the Hochstetter at their height became public after a certain Bartholomew Rhein invested 900 gulden in the Hochstetter company in 1511; by 1517 he claimed a profit of 33,000 gulden.
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Several publications have attempted to explain exactly how Valentine and Winthorpe make a large sum of money on the commodities market while simultaneously bankrupting the Dukes. The fake crop report created by Valentine and Winthorpe indicates to the Dukes that the orange crop will be poor, making the limited stock more valuable. The Dukes attempt to buy up as many Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice (FCOJ) futures contracts as possible to corner the market—effectively owning a substantial enough number of contracts that they are able to control the price of FCOJ. The other brokers realize what the Dukes are doing and join in buying futures.
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A series of riots against the speculators, and against the conspiratorial, manipulative system as whole, erupted in 1733; starvation was widespread, and meanwhile, speculators were acting to "corner" the market and to control prices. This was the first of a number of riots, called uchikowashi (打壊し), which would grow in frequency and size over the next century or so. The shogunate set a price floor in 1735, forcing merchants in Edo to sell for no less than one ryō per 1.4 koku, and in Osaka no less than 42 momme per koku. A 10 momme fine was charged of anyone found to have paid less.
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As part of its plan to rid itself of American competition, the HBC sought to corner the market in Alaska by securing a monopoly on trade with the Russian American Company in 1839. McMillan went to many lengths to ensure that the Indigenous people were kept at a distance during the construction of the second fort. The location of the fort was moved four kilometres upstream in 1839 and changed its focus to farming, fish, and cranberry harvesting, rather than the fur trade.Peak Production at Fort Langley, Parks Canada] Trading was now only allowed through a wicket, with sentries posted on the second story.
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Norris' compelling portrayal of the Chicago Board of Trade also inspired the creation of Pit: Exciting Fun for Everyone, a card game by Parker Brothers, in 1904. The game includes 65 playing cards on which either a bull, a bear, or one of seven different commodities available for exchange (corn, barley, wheat, rye, flax, hay, or oats) is pictured. It simulates the nonstop action of an actual trading pit by challenging players to corner the market by collecting all nine cards of one commodity."Pit: Exciting Fun for Everyone", New York Historical Society Museum & Library. The game was remastered and released again in 1964 by the name Pit: The World’s Liveliest Trading Game.
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The plot-line that follows Curtis Jadwin’s exploits in wheat speculation and attempt to corner the market was inspired by the true story of Bull trader Joseph Leiter. Norris learned of the Joseph Leitner Wheat corner of 1897-98 upon visiting Chicago in 1901. For a short period of time, Leitner was the largest individual holder of wheat in the history of the grain trade. Leitner lost an estimated 10 million dollars when the market crashed in 1898. The ups and downs of the Chicago wheat pit in the novel follow the pattern of Leitner’s market. Both first purchased wheat in April 1897 and both corners collapsed on Monday, June 13, 1898.
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In their talks they discussed plans to copy right and patent products they produced such as cooling beds. That way, both companies could corner the market with their products and have total control and say of the price. In 1956 both companies were found out and were sued by the United States Federal Government for price fixing and anti trust violations. During the court case, evidence was brought up regarding the plan to patent cooling beds (heavy machinery for steel making) and how it was not a unique product of Birdsboro nor Mesta since it was first patented in 1872 and had since been made by other machinery builders besides Birdsboro and Mesta.
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J.C. Bradford & Co. was founded in May 1927, with the $10,000 purchase of Joe B. Palmer Co., a small securities firm in Nashville. Prior to founding J.C. Bradford & Co., Bradford had worked in insurance, managing the Davis, Bradford & Company insurance agency until 1923 when he was brought in to save the Memphis-based grocery store Piggly Wiggly. Bradford served as president of the grocery retailer from 1923 to 1926. Bradford led the company's corporate restructuring after its founder had nearly bankrupted the company in an effort to corner the market for the company's common stock. Despite the stock market crash of 1929, in 1930 J.C. Bradford & Co. purchased its seat on the New York Stock Exchange for $400,000.
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Soon afterward, he turned his eye to management, when he began supplying Japanese farm workers to white farmers. By the late 1890s, he leased some land and began his own farming operations. He was successful enough to purchase some inexpensive swampland (considered undesirable by white American farmers) in the San Joaquin Delta. After draining and diking the land, he found that potatoes grew best in that type of soil, and using corporate management techniques and the latest agricultural technology, began to corner the market in potatoes. By 1913, he had in production and by 1920, he had 85% of the market share with his "Shima Fancy" brand, valued at more than $18 million ($ today).
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In August 1869, Gould and Fisk began to buy gold in an attempt to corner the market, hoping that the increase in the price of gold would increase the price of wheat and motivate western farmers to sell. This, in turn, would cause a great amount of shipping eastward, increasing freight business for the Erie Railroad. During this time, Gould used contacts with President Ulysses S. Grant's brother-in-law Abel Corbin to influence the president and his Secretary General Horace Porter. These speculations culminated in the panic of Black Friday on September 24, 1869, when the premium over face value fell on a gold Double Eagle from 62 percent to 35 percent.
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However, with liberalization, owners of grain started to speculate by storing grain. and, acting with astute business acumen in efforts to corner the market, also tended to buy en masse in areas of good harvests to sell in areas of bad harvests where profits could be greater, causing significant price increases and shortages countrywide (less grain in good-harvest regions led to higher prices there as well) as opposed to being confined to local food disruptions. Consequently, the food shortages of early 1775 affected more people more quickly, and the king was faced with a national crisis as opposed to several small local disturbances. This conflict was known as the "Flour War of 1775".
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As described in a film magazine, Bill Bear (Dix), a cotton broker's clerk in the Mississippi river town of Cottonia, is in love with a chorus girl named Poppy (Chadwick). He learns that his crabbed employer Fraser (Lewis) is attempting to corner the market and uses this knowledge to enter into a partnership with Fraser's enemy Swift (Steppling). They grow rich and Bill becomes engaged to Swift's daughter. On the day of the wedding, however, Bill, Poppy, Fraser, Swift, a street preacher with a taste for alcohol, a plain drunk (King), stranded Swedish engineer Nordling (Orlamond), an out-at-elbows actor, corporate lawyer Sharpe (Davies), saloon keeper Stratton (Walling), and a bartender are imprisoned in Stratton's cafe by a sudden flood.
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What is known is that, after Norton arrived in San Francisco, he enjoyed a good deal of success in commodities markets and in real estate speculation, and that by late 1852, he was one of the more prosperous, respected citizens of the city. In December 1852, Norton thought he saw a business opportunity when China, facing a severe famine, placed a ban on the export of rice, causing the price of rice in San Francisco to skyrocket from four to thirty-six cents per pound (9 to 79 cents/kg). When he heard the Glyde, which was returning from Peru, was carrying of rice, he bought the entire shipment for $25,000 (or twelve and a half cents per pound), hoping to corner the market.
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He purchased the Albany Rolling and Slitting Mill, renamed it the Albany Nail Factory, and used it to corner the market on numerous iron products he sold at his store. The Albany Nail Factory eventually became the Rensselaer Iron Works, which under Corning's guidance installed the first Bessemer converter in the United States. By the time he was 40, Corning had helped found the Albany State Bank (he would serve as president until his death), been named to the board of regents for the University of the State of New York, begun speculating on land in western New York (including the townsite that bears his name), and had been elected mayor of Albany. Corning served a single term as mayor, from 1834 until 1837, having been elected as a Democrat.
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Primary causes of the run included a retraction of market liquidity by a number of New York City banks and a loss of confidence among depositors, exacerbated by unregulated side bets at bucket shops.Yale M. Braunstein, "The Role of Information Failures in the Financial Meltdown" , School of Information, UC Berkeley, Summer 2009 The panic was triggered by the failed attempt in October 1907 to corner the market on stock of the United Copper Company. When this bid failed, banks that had lent money to the cornering scheme suffered runs that later spread to affiliated banks and trusts, leading a week later to the downfall of the Knickerbocker Trust Company—New York City's third-largest trust. The collapse of the Knickerbocker spread fear throughout the city's trusts as regional banks withdrew reserves from New York City banks.
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According to the Museum of the City of New York he was a French copper industrialist who made his fortune in copper production. He donated 60,000 kilos of copper in the 1870s to make Liberty Enlightening the World, commonly known as the Statue of Liberty.The Statue of Liberty: The Museum of the City of New York, by Cara Sutherland, 2003 He later lost his wealth in the when his "Société industriel et commerciale des métaux" went bankrupt after an attempt to corner the market on copper.The History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914-45, by Mira Wilkins, Harvard University Press, 2004 After the copper crash in March 1889, he sold his extended art collection in the Paris gallery of Charles Sedelmeyer after printing and publicizing a catalogue in French and English to attract American investors.
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Patrese on the other hand seemed to corner the market on Brabham's bad luck and while often as quick or quicker than Piquet (including leading the San Marino Grand Prix before crashing out with only 6 laps remaining, and grabbing pole at Monza) he didn't score a point until his third in Round 10 at the German Grand Prix. His only other points finish being his win at the season ending South African Grand Prix at Kyalami. With Piquet winning his second World Drivers' Championship with 59 points, and Patrese finishing 9th on 13 points, Brabham finished third in the Constructors' Championship with 72 points, 7 behind second placed Renault and 17 behind winners Ferrari. The BT52 was updated after the Canadian Grand Prix to the BT52B and proceeded to win three of the remaining seven races of the season.
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Craughwell, p. 61 Gould successfully maneuvered an informant, Daniel Butterfield, into a post as assistant to Boutwell, and began buying gold in earnest, sending the price up.Craughwell, pp. 61-63 Grant was alerted to the attempt to corner the market by a courier-delivered letter from his brother-in-law Abel Corbin, who was in the gold ring, urging that the government refrain from selling gold.Craughwell, pp. 61-62 Grant met with Boutwell on Thursday, September 22, and they decided the government should step in.Craughwell, p. 63 On September 23, 1869, the Gold Panic reached its climax: Secretary Boutwell ordered the release of $4 million of Treasury gold, but not before Jay Gould (alerted via First Lady Julia Grant and Corbin) had managed to sell off some of his holdings. The price rapidly dropped from $160 to $135, creating panic among gold speculators.Craughwell, pp.
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Black Friday September 24, 1869 In 1869, Babcock invested money in Jay Cooke & Company's Gold Ring, a scam by wealthy New York tycoons Jay Gould and James Fisk to profit by cornering the market on gold. Starting in late April, Secretary of the Treasury George S. Boutwell had regulated the price of gold by monthly sales from the Treasury in exchange for greenbacks. As part of the Gold Ring's effort, Gould convinced Grant not to increase the Treasury's September gold sale, helping make it scarce and inflating the price. Gould and Fisk then set up a buying operation, the New York Gold Room, where traders in their employ purchased as much gold as they could acquire, which artificially drove up the price. When Grant became aware of the full extent of the attempt to corner the market in late September 1869, he ordered the release of $4,500,000 in Treasury gold, which caused the price to collapse.
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Nelson Bunker Hunt, Lamar Hunt, and William Herbert Hunt, the sons of Texas oil billionaire Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, Jr., had for some time been attempting to corner the market in silver. In 1979, the price for silver (based on the London Fix) jumped from $6.08 per troy ounce ($0.195/g) on January 1, 1979, to a record high of $49.45 per troy ounce ($1.590/g) on January 18, 1980, an increase of 713%. The brothers were estimated to hold one third of the entire world supply of silver (other than that held by governments). The situation for other prospective purchasers of silver was so dire that on March 26, 1980, the jeweller Tiffany's took out a full page ad in The New York Times, condemning the Hunt Brothers and stating "We think it is unconscionable for anyone to hoard several billion, yes billion, dollars' worth of silver and thus drive the price up so high that others must pay artificially high prices for articles made of silver".
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At the start of the 19th century, the North American fur trade was expanding toward present-day Montana from two directions. Representatives of British and Canadian fur trade companies, primarily the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, pushed west and south from their stronghold on the Saskatchewan River, while American trappers and traders followed the trail of the Lewis and Clark Expedition up the Missouri River from their base in St. Louis. These traders competed not only in trapping fur-bearing animals, particularly the American beaver, but also in arranging trade relations with the many indigenous groups in the region, hoping to corner the market on these rich resources. For their part, the region's indigenous groups – particularly the Piegan (often called "Blackfeet" in the USA), the Crow, and the Salish and Kootenai – struggled to maintain control of their own lands and resources which supported their people and way of life.
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