Powerhouses Alipay and Tencent Pay, however, already cornered the market.
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Razor has pretty much cornered the market on two-wheeled toys.
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In recent years, the streaming service has cornered the market on comedy specials.
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Saudi Arabia is also a big producer but the Iranians have cornered the market.
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The trouble is that Mr Trump has cornered the market in protectionism and isolationism.
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For now, Amgen, in partnership with Novartis, has cornered the market on migraine treatments.
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Russia also seems to have cornered the market on politicizing the potential side effects.
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Elle U.K. has really cornered the market on celebrity relationship scoop with its September issue.
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Most notorious was Ahmed Ezz, who bought a public steel company and soon cornered the market.
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Sorry, Hillary Clinton and Bill de Blasio, but Bernie Sanders has cornered the market on dangerous.
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Weiss cornered the market on these beauties long ago; studying them is part of OMA's R&D.
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The Sharks have cornered the market on veterans thirsting to quaff the bubbly from the Stanley Cup.
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In recent months, China has all-but cornered the market for cobalt, whose price has sky-rocketed.
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In California, a company called Vogmask has all but cornered the market with its brightly colored designs.
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Airbnb may have cornered the market on millennials, but a new company wants to win over their grandparents.
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The loss of Nereus means HAST has, for the moment at least, cornered the market on hadal exploration.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Juul essentially has cornered the market for e-cigarettes.
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Nvidia has cornered the market in graphics processing units, such as gaming software, data centers and cryptocurrency mining.
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Mr. Malloy's business has all but cornered the market on producing political rallies here for Democratic presidential candidates.
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FleishmanHillard has cornered the market on crisis management counseling for companies that invoke the president's wrath on Twitter.
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But premium-grade stupidity, on which Donald Trump has pretty well cornered the market, is not always illegal.
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Apple and Samsung have pretty much cornered the market on smartphones, but the tablet world has a few more contenders.
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If you thought the Black Keys had cornered the market on blues-based stompers, she's here to change your mind.
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Nobody has a monopoly on wisdom, but in this election, one party has largely cornered the market in raw ignorance.
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Early in his career Mr Simons unintentionally almost cornered the market for Maine potatoes, only realising when regulators reprimanded him.
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Mobile game developers don't have many places to go for distribution, with Apple and Google having largely cornered the market.
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To be taken seriously, any reform would need bipartisan support, and McCain, on this issue, had cornered the market on bipartisanship.
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His failure to do even that seems at least partially a result of Clinton having cornered the market on foreign policy experts.
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"When it comes to instituting 'cultures of customer delight,' Chick-fil-A has all but cornered the market," wrote Eater in 2016.
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But the ratings for Hallmark Christmas movies speak for themselves, showing how the channel has cornered the market on holiday romantic dramedies.
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We weren't original, of course; the postmodernists had cornered the market on irony decades before, and, unlike us, actually had something to say.
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I won't accuse them of putting party ahead of country — the party that nominated Donald Trump has cornered the market on that sin.
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Eventually, college sports cornered the market, meaning the best young talent would still go to college, even though they begrudgingly couldn't be paid.
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Amazon has cornered the market for need-based shopping, and now it wants to be the place you go for discovery as well.
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The casual observer might think that Google-owned (and soon to be sold) Boston Dynamics has cornered the market on nightmare dog robots.
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Jaeden Lieberher and Finn Wolfhard (of Stranger Things fame, so he's really cornered the market on creepy '80s nostalgia) play some of the kids.
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Taser cornered the market on police stun guns by supercharging its weapons so that they didn't just cause pain; they induced incapacitating muscle contractions.
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As his career progressed, Memling more or less cornered the market on portraiture in Bruges, appealing to both a local and an international clientele.
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NBC may have cornered the market on Dick Wolf procedurals set in Chicago, but ABC has apparently staked out Seattle for Shonda Rhimes' growing empire.
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Juul has essentially cornered the market on vaping products and is now flush with cash following a $85033 billion investment from traditional cigarette-maker Altria.
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Anne Hunter, executive VP of strategy and growth at data consulting company Kantar, points to how Netflix has cornered the market on this concept already.
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With about two-thirds of its exhibitors displaying fine art, Art Market Hamptons, as Market Art + Design was originally known, has apparently cornered the market.
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People can point out, and they surely will, that the Catholic Church has not cornered the market on sexual abuse of children and young people.
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Contrasting Mr. Edwards's hollow presentation with Arnold Schwarzenegger's brazen campaign for governor of California, Mr. Buttigieg wrote that Republicans had cornered the market on political swagger.
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LinkedIn has cornered the market when it comes to putting your own professional profile online and using it to network for jobs, industry connections and professional development.
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Remember: Lost anticipated the era of prestige TV. It cornered the market in "mysterious" TV, capturing the audiences who already loved 24 and, even earlier, The Twilight Zone.
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And as it turns out, one brand in particular has cornered the market on the tights and turtlenecks every star was using as the foundations of their outfits.
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They can trace their roots back to Antonio Cuneo, an Italian immigrant who cornered the market in the late 216th century and became known as the Banana King.
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Historically, Sonos has cornered the market with the very well-reviewed Sonos Play: 1 and Play: 3, and the company just unveiled a speaker with Alexa software built in.
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The company has cornered the market partly by requiring authors to sell exclusively through it if they want to be included in Kindle Unlimited, Amazon's Netflix-style subscription service.
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While LinkedIn has largely cornered the market on professional networking, Facebook recently took steps to challenge LinkedIn with the expansion of its Jobs dashboard to 40 more countries worldwide.
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Then, as ratings became a factor, news networks started trying to get market segments, where Fox News cornered the market on conservative news and MSNBC targeted the progressive left.
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Homophobia abounds in most major religions, but in our country, fundamentalist Christians have certainly cornered the market when it comes to putting forth legislation to hem in L.G.B.T. people.
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The video comes from the fine folks at WoodRocket, a porn production house that has basically cornered the market on hyper-sexual, zeitgeist-aping parodies of every pop culture touchstone.
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Cupertino-based Apple has already cornered the market for smartwatches, according to new research on Tuesday, but analysts still have doubts over the long-term outlook for the nascent sector.
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After all, The Herald and the rest of the Fairfax Media papers had practically cornered the market in Sydney and Melbourne for classified advertising for cars, jobs and real estate.
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Given that no one has truly cornered the market I suspect they will do a quick Google search and find Makerbot complaints, lawsuits, and product announcements… and will head somewhere else.
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With a product line that includes flavors such as Bourbon Smoked Black Pepper, Sesame Teriyaki, and Maple Bacon, Chase and his team have cornered the market on small-batch vegan jerky.
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While late-night talk shows have cornered the market on bits about impeachment and the latest development in the presidential campaign, standup specials this year have moved in the opposite direction.
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In 2008, he cornered the market on evangelical voters who were suspicious of John McCain's past hostility to the religious right, Rudy Giuliani's pro-choice views and adultery, and Mitt Romney's Mormonism.
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Where to stream it: Amazon Long before the Wayans brothers cornered the market on movie parodies, Jim Abrahams and David and Jerry Zucker mastered the delicate art of the spoof, beginning with Airplane!
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Disney seemed to have cornered the market in family musicals over the past two decades, regularly producing splashy, technically sophisticated stage versions of its popular animated movies (and the occasional original, such as "Aida").
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Where to stream it: Amazon, Netflix Long before the Wayans brothers cornered the market on movie parodies, Jim Abrahams and David and Jerry Zucker mastered the delicate art of the spoof, beginning with Airplane!
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Market share is small, at less than 4%, but it has cornered the market in some areas: it sells 22% of all ready meals and 93% of party food bought in Britain, for instance.
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Having cornered the market for on-demand cars and taxis, Cheng is branching out into bus services and bikes, throwing his weight for instance behind one of the country's largest bicycle-renting services, Ofo.
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With these two deals, YouTube has nearly cornered the market on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive leagues, and CS:GO is one of the top three most-watched esports alongside League of Legends and Dota 2.
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Over the last seven years, he has presented himself as a sultan of sentiment, the king of comebacks, a human meme, and both cornered the market and set the benchmark on all of those achievements.
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Until recently a one-note provider of electrical weapons, Taser has swiftly cornered the market for body cameras and related software, making it one of the most important suppliers of technology to law enforcement today.
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Dominated by corporate giants, one of which has cornered the market for mobile phone cracking technology in the US, and also home to plenty of smaller shops, the mobile forensics trade is littered with unsavory episodes.
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America Rising, which has cornered the market on opposition research on the nearly two dozen presidential contenders, has tracked what it considers a steady decline in the public's interest in O'Rourke, according to the Daily Beast.
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Kvitova has made one of the great comebacks in a sport that seems to have cornered the market in comebacks, but it is unclear how much the effort has taken out of her physically or emotionally.
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"There were no cat accessories that matched perfectly with human accessories, and I feel I really cornered the market on that," DeGeneres said of her collection filled with designs similar to what you see in human stores.
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The Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System, Orange County Employees' Retirement System and Sonoma County Employees' Retirement Association said in the lawsuit that the banks have cornered the market on stock lending in violation of federal antitrust law.
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That's why the CEO of Taser—the company that has cornered the market on "conducted electrical weapons" for US police and now wants to do the same for body cameras—recently promised to roll out livestreaming by 2017.
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Savory molds like cucumber mousse, tomato aspic and glacé fish mold were just as popular as sweet ones until the presweetened Jell-O brand cornered the market soon after being introduced at the turn of the 20th century.
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Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror has pretty much cornered the market on technology-inspired dystopia, but long before prime ministers were having sex with pigs or autonomous robot dogs were terrorizing the Scottish moors, there was the work of Andrew Niccol.
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If religion and faith are as much about how we see ourselves — our identities, our personal brand — as they are about what we believe, then Hillsong has cornered the market on a particular kind of self-identification for young Christians.
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After navigating through the registration and login process with a service called Click4Advisor (which enables "'click-for-talk' live voice communication from the web, emails and advertising banners" and seems to have cornered the market in online psychic chat software), I eagerly awaited my turn.
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Although, as Mr. Hunter wrote, "I didn't long for an acting career, not in the way I longed to be on the ice or at the stables," Mr. Clayton brokered an introduction to Mr. Willson, who had cornered the market in wholesome all-American boys.
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Bear McCreary has created a cottage industry as the "composer king of Comic-Con," landing jobs composing for The Walking Dead, Outlander, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Blake Neely has cornered the market on The CW's D.C. universe of series, scoring Arrow, Supergirl, The Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow.
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The fast-casual spot has cornered the market on tamales (a niche demand someone had to see to) with a plate of three tamales (varieties include chipotle beef, green chile chicken, and vegetable curry) and two sides and salsa (go for spicy black beans and Spanish rice) for less than $10.
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Casper, the mattress company that cornered the market on podcast ads and got into a skirmish over online mattress reviews a few years back, is trying to pivot into "non-traditional categories" according to its attempt to go public, filed Friday and which you can now read in S-1 form.
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It was also the golden age of cartoon sexuality: Adult animator Ralph Bakshi followed the success of the X-rated Fritz the Cat with burned-out, bell-bottomed exercises in hand-drawn hallucination like Coonskin and Wizards, and the magazine Heavy Metal cornered the market for large-bosomed women riding dragons and beating the shit out of pervy robots.
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"We think we've cornered the market these days with the world going insane," but adding context to Hearst's unfolding drama, he notes that around the same time, the Watergate investigation was peaking, President Nixon would resign, the Vietnam War was ending, the energy crisis was in full swing, and in the San Francisco Bay area, the Zodiac serial killer was on the loose.
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The emergence of specialized markets like the gluten free and vegan food product industries, as well as buzzy fad diets like keto and paleo, have also been boons for the bar industry, with brands like Bulletproof (famous for its keto-friendly, high-performance butter coffee) and Epic (which has cornered the market with its "meat strips," featuring such high end ingredients as Wagyu beef and venison) dipping toes into the market.
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On that momentum, a few months later Maker scored another $5 million as a Series A. It came from Ev Williams' Obvious Ventures, Raine Ventures, and Azure Capital But facing off with AutoDesk-owned Instructables and eHow for learning how to build things, Pinterest and Facebook Groups to share them, and Etsy to sell them, Maker's online properties haven't cornered the market the same way its magazine and events have.
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While Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has cornered the market on protectionism, Secretary Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's views on the matter are less clear.
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By the 1960s, NBC had already cornered the market for late-night television viewing and would go on to dominate the ratings for several decades in the future.
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Schliemann next cornered the market in indigo dye and then went into the indigo business itself, turning a good profit. Ekaterina and Heinrich had a son, Sergey (1855–1941), and two daughters, Natalya (1859–1869) and Nadezhda (1861–1935). Schliemann made yet another quick fortune as a military contractor in the Crimean War, 1854–1856. He cornered the market in saltpeter, sulfur, and lead, constituents of ammunition, which he resold to the Russian government.
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Eurogamer wrote that the Twitter account continued the tradition of previous Molyneux spoofs, such as a quest in Fable 2 that imitated an idiosyncratic tree-growing mechanic from its predecessor. As of 2012, Capone's account had cornered the market.
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Developing his own distinctive visual style while making commercials, Scott states, "I cornered the market in sexy, rock'n'roll stuff." Scott took time out in 1975 to direct a television adaptation of the Henry James story The Author of Beltraffio.Tony Scott obituary. The Guardian.
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Back in town, Sean McGinnes (Ben Esler), the railroad's new bookkeeper, tells Cullen that Durant has cancelled the livestock contracts and cornered the market. An angry Cullen says he should have killed Durant long ago. Louise overhears this. Later in the church, Cullen tells Ruth Cole (Kasha Kropinski) about the Hatch family situation.
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'The Stage, March 22, 1917 Having somewhat cornered the market in the role, she was back again as Donna Lucia d'Alvadorez in Charley's Aunt at the Prince of Wales's Theatre (1920-21)J. P. Wearing, The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Rowman & Littlefield (2014) - Google Books p. 67 before she acted as Mrs.
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Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned." Vanessa Juarez of Entertainment Weekly commented that Bell's roles on Veronica Mars, Heroes and as a Star Wars fanatic in Fanboys have "solidif[ied] her placement at the center of the geek universe," while Rodney Rothman stated, "I guess she's cornered the market on losers.
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Retrieved 2014-1-9. the company also offers a variety of homes, including the solar farmhouse, specifically designed to be net-zero energy efficient in their Renew Collection."How Asheville cornered the market on round houses" Citizen-Times. Retrieved 2014-1-9. The Deltec factory is completely powered by renewable energy."The first net-zero home under construction from Deltec Homes" Jetson Green. Retrieved 2014-1-9.
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He went bankrupt but was able to recover all of his losses. In 1915, he filed bankruptcy again. Following the end of World War I, Livermore secretly cornered the market in cotton. It was only interception by President Woodrow Wilson, prompted by a call from the United States Secretary of Agriculture, who asked him to the White House for a discussion that stopped his move.
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When soap is dispensed in liquid form, it is generally in a squeeze bottle or pump. The most popular soap dispensers of this type are plastic pump bottles, many of which are disposable. William Shepphard patented liquid soap on August 22, 1865. Minnetonka Corporation introduced the first modern liquid soap and cornered the market by buying up the entire supply of the plastic pumps needed for the liquid soap dispensers.
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Together they virtually cornered the market on the works of William Blake, the English poet, painter, and printmaker. Facsimiles were created from Blake's work and many of them wound up in American universities. When Van Devanter learned that Sotheby's might sell some of the works of John Locke, he flew to England, rented a bike, and chased down the Oxford librarian on his morning bicycle ride to work, to seek his cooperation.
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Despite his incompetence (or rather because of it), his first picture turns out to be an critical and commercial smash hit, and Susan becomes a star. Later, a very persuasive salesman gets George to buy 2000 airplanes, which causes Glogauer to fire him. However, air movies become very popular, and George has inadvertently cornered the market. The other studios are desperate to get airplanes from Glogauer at any price, and George is once again considered a genius.
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The manoeuvre worked, and Caring cornered the market in fast fashion. ICD at its height supplied 70% of the clothing sold by British high street retailers, supplying Marks & Spencer, Mothercare and Next. It was through ICD and its trading that he met and developed his relationship with Sir Philip Green, the fashion retailer. Up to this day, ICD is the dominant supplier to Arcadia Group, the Green-owned fashion retail chain that includes Dorothy Perkins, Topshop and Top Man.
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Romano was technically still in the Bureau of Prison's custody. As for Gammarano, "he was out on bail pending sentencing" for setting up "a $10 million scheme in which New Orleans mobsters cornered the market on the distribution of Joker Poker machines throughout Louisiana". thumb Gammarano offered to finance Romano's projects going forward, creating a partnership between the two gangsters. One of these businesses tried to capitalize on opportunities created by the 1982 mandated break-up of the Bell System.
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His company quickly became the largest per capita employer in Maine and the largest in Lewiston, for three decades. Contracted by the Maine State Legislature, Bates founded the Lewiston Water Power Company: a large mill- based enterprise that built the first canal in the city. At the start of the American Civil War, Bates correctly anticipated that the talk of secession in the Southern States would lead to a shortage of cotton. By buying up an unprecedented amount prior to the Battle of Fort Sumter, he cornered the market.
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Clarke appeared in over thirty films throughout her forty-year career, usually in bit parts or in background roles, uncredited. Films in which she made a large impression included The Seven Little Foys, in which she played a large supporting role as Bob Hope's disapproving sister-in-law, House of Wax, (1953) A Double Life, The Gunfighter and The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima. Angela Clarke, despite entering the film business in her early forties (in 1949's The Undercover Man), cornered the market for grey-haired, matriarchal motherly-types (such as her role as Mama Caruso in The Great Caruso).
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His next release, Bala, was also a comedy, in which he played a young man who faces societal pressure due to premature balding. He found it physically challenging to play the part due to the heavy layers of prosthetics used on his head. Rajeev Masand opined that Khurrana "cuts a sympathetic figure as another not-instantly-likeable loser" and added that he had "cornered the market when it comes to playing flawed, insecure men with confidence issues". He won another Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for Article 15 and received a Best Actor nomination at the ceremony for Bala.
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The Glass–Steagall Act passed in 1933 during the Great Depression in the United States provides another example; most of the Glass- Steagall provisions were repealed during the 1980s and 1990s. The Onion Futures Act bans the trading of futures contracts on onions in the United States, after speculators successfully cornered the market in the mid-1950s; it remains in effect . The Soviet Union regarded any form of private trade with the intent of gaining profit as speculation () and a criminal offense and punished speculators accordingly with fines, imprisonment, confiscation and/or corrective labor. Speculation was specifically defined in article 154 of the Penal Code of the USSR.
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Burns & Porter was a business in the United Kingdom that prepared and distributed pub quizzes. In 1976, Sharon Burns and Tom Porter founded and organised 32 pub quiz teams in three leagues in southern England. Burns and Porter travelled the country for the next few years, presenting their quizzes to breweries as a marketing strategy to bring customers to their pubs on slow evenings. Burns and Porter cornered the market in pub quizzes, with over 10,000 teams playing in one of their quizzes every week in the season, while the BBC and independent television companies tapped them for contestants and questions for television quiz shows.
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With a few other tradesmen he cornered the market and this de facto cartel was able to sell at an inflated price that fomented butter riots in London in the 1590s. In the early 1600s Leman bought Goodman's Fields just outside the City of London near Aldgate. He developed the area as a suburb creating four streets: Leman Street, Ayliff Street, Mansell Street, and Prescot Street, the last three names being those of some of his close relatives. In 1622 Leman, together with his nephew Robert Leman, and his late brother William's third son William Leman, bought the manor of Warboys, Huntingdonshire, from Oliver Cromwell.
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Brown is a partner at XYZ Films, and Variety credits Twitch Film as helping to popularize the production company's films. Brad Miska of Bloody Disgusting wrote that Twitch "...quickly established itself as the online world’s leading source for international, independent, cult, arthouse and genre film news, review and discussion." He also wrote: "Over the years I have become increasingly impressed by what Todd Brown has done with Twitch Film, he has cornered the market for all edgy international releases and has given life to foreign films that might never have seen the light here in the States." Ain't It Cool News has linked to Twitch Film pages on multiple occasions and UGO.
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Paramount Pictures, under Adolph Zukor's leadership, was largely responsible for introducing the practice of block booking to Hollywood: > At a time when star prominence was the single most important factor > determining a film's box-office success, Zukor had cornered the market. In a > 1918 popularity poll...the six top stars on the list—Mary Pickford, > Marguerite Clark, Douglas Fairbanks, Harold Lockwood, William S. Hart, and > Wallace Reid—were all under contract to Zukor. > > Using this leverage, Paramount was able to insist that prospective > exhibitors interested in, say, the Pickford films, acquire them in large > blocks along with a quantity of less attractive titles. These block-booking > arrangements typically included groups of from 13 to 52 or even 104 titles.
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By 1871, refining capacity had grown to over 12 million barrels per year, more than twice the amount of oil that was actually processed in that year. The first oil exchange in the US was established in Titusville in January 1872 in response to rumors that a conspiratorial ring of crude oil traders in New York City had cornered the market. As the decade progressed, larger producers, such as John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil, began to consolidate their holdings over the wells and refineries in the region, and the oil rush began to settle down. Pennsylvania oil production peaked in 1891, when the state produced 31 million barrels of oil, 58% of the nation's oil that year.
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Later minor roles for Hitchcock were Sabotage (1936 – as the doomed bus conductor), Young and Innocent (1937) and Jamaica Inn (1939 – as Charles Laughton's agent). Piper's services were always in demand, and he is said to have once joked that he had cornered the market in unnamed police officers and barmen. From the late 1930s he became associated with Ealing Studios, appearing in dozens of their productions, from cheaply shot programmers through to the company's most prestigious films such as In Which We Serve (1942). Most of Piper's roles were fleeting and his name rarely appeared in promotional material, but there was an occasional more substantial part in films such as Nine Men (1943), The October Man (1947) and Hunted (1952).
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Overestimating his business acumen, he had negotiated his own contract with Paramount, permanently and irrevocably signing away his film rights, and relinquishing his television rights till 1952, by which time, he discovered to his rage and frustration, Paramount was showing late-night reruns and had thus cornered the market. A more immediate problem was alcohol. He told his friend Alice Neel (the model for Louise Patterson, the eccentric painter in The Big Clock) that since he could now afford to start drinking in the morning, he was having trouble getting any work done. On one occasion he almost died from a combination of scotch and phenobarbital, and in 1952 he was so shaken by his doctor's warnings about the condition of his liver that he went on the wagon.
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During the financial crisis of 2007-2010 Porsche cornered the market in shares of Volkswagen, which briefly saw Volkswagen become the world's most valuable company. Porsche claimed that its actions were intended to gain control of Volkswagen rather than to manipulate the market: in this case, while cornering the market in Volkswagen shares, Porsche contracted with naked shorts—resulting in a short squeeze on them. ; "A Clever Move by Porsche on VW’s Stock", The New York Times; "Porsche crashes into controversy in the ultimate 'short squeeze'", The Daily Telegraph It was ultimately unsuccessful, leading to the resignation of Porsche's chief executive and financial director and to the merger of Porsche into Volkswagen. One of the wealthiest men in Germany's industry, Adolf Merckle, committed suicide after shorting Volkswagen shares.
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The roadside diner used for interior shots of the "Flying Saucer Diner" was remote enough from the other filming locations that a bus was made available to transport crew members, to save on travel expenses. Only key grip Al Campbell made use of this bus service, causing producers to abandon the idea until the fourth season episode "Herrenvolk". Guest star Seth Green said that despite being cast as "stoner kid" Emil, and having "cornered the market on the affable stoner in TV and film", he had never used cannabis before. Green related that his first day on the set came just after Duchovny had finished filming his final scene; Green was impressed with Duchovny's demeanour and improvisational acting, and added that the two "just goofed off the whole time".
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According to Aristotle in The Politics (Book I Section 1259a), Thales of Miletus once cornered the market in olive- oil presses: > Thales, so the story goes, because of his poverty was taunted with the > uselessness of philosophy; but from his knowledge of astronomy he had > observed while it was still winter that there was going to be a large crop > of olives, so he raised a small sum of money and paid round deposits for the > whole of the olive-presses in Miletus and Chios, which he hired at a low > rent as nobody was running him up; and when the season arrived, there was a > sudden demand for a number of presses at the same time, and by letting them > out on what terms he liked he realized a large sum of money, so proving that > it is easy for philosophers to be rich if they choose.
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In the early 1960s, despite Selmer's apparent market domination, The Shadows' and The Beatles' endorsement of Vox amplifiers relegated Selmer guitar amplifiers to a distant second place in sales. The management of the company made various lukewarm attempts to gain endorsement from aspiring musicians but became increasingly distant from the developments in pop culture from the mid-1960s considering that its role was to support "real" or established professional musicians and not the headliners of the pop industry. This was the beginning of the end for Selmer UK. By the early 1970s Selmer UK had been purchased by Chicago Musical Instruments, then the parent company of Gibson Guitars, which Selmer was distributing in the UK. By this time Marshall guitar amplifiers had cornered the market, and the Selmer manufacturing facility was an expensive drain on resources. During this period, the Selmer range of Treble & Bass 50 & 100 valve amplifiers appeared to be stylistic relics from pre-1959 and the decision was made to move the manufacturing facility to a disused brush and coconut matting works dating from 1914, based in rural Essex.
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