There are additional inefficiencies arising from the highly fragmented nature of the municipal bond market which has two million outstanding issues and 50, 000 issuers in contrast to the Treasury market which has 400 issues and a single issuer.

Only 65. 175 single call in-lines remained in the residential market and 9. 580 in the business market.

However, following NTL's acquisition of Virgin Mobile, the NTL and Telewest services were rebranded Virgin Media on February 8, 2007, creating a single cable operator covering more than 95 % of the UK cable market.

Without it, household behavior would be unaffected by uncertain employment and income prospects, financial and capital markets would reduce to exchange of a single instrument in each market period, and there would be no communications industry.

The economy of Hungary is a medium-sized, structurally, politically and institutionally open economy in Central Europe and is part of the European Union's ( EU ) single market.

Classical music fans, who were opinion leaders in the audio market, quickly adopted LPs because, unlike with older records, most classical works would fit on a single LP.

Such properties are generally shared among several insurers, or are insured by a single insurer who syndicates the risk into the reinsurance market.

In the European Union, the Third Non-Life Directive and the Third Life Directive, both passed in 1992 and effective 1994, created a single insurance market in Europe and allowed insurance companies to offer insurance anywhere in the EU ( subject to permission from authority in the head office ) and allowed insurance consumers to purchase insurance from any insurer in the EU.

Intel repositioned Itanium to focus on high-end business and HPC computing, attempting to duplicate x86's successful " horizontal " market ( i. e., single architecture, multiple systems vendors ).

The economy of Latvia is an open economy in Northern Europe and is part of the European Union's ( EU ) single market.

Though single employer market power is unlikely to exist in most labor markets in the sense of the traditional ' company town ,' asymmetric information, imperfect mobility, and the ' personal ' element of the labor transaction give some degree of wage-setting power to most firms.

A monopoly ( from Greek monos μόνος ( alone or single ) + polein πωλεῖν ( to sell )) exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity ( this contrasts with a monopsony which relates to a single entity's control of a market to purchase a good or service, and with oligopoly which consists of a few entities dominating an industry ).

A monopoly is a market structure in which a single supplier produces and sells a given product.

If there is a single seller in a certain industry and there are not any close substitutes for the product, then the market structure is that of a " pure monopoly ".

Therefore, the whole market is being served by a single company, and for practical purposes, the company is the same as the industry.

Market power is the ability to affect the terms and conditions of exchange so that the price of a product is set by a single company ( price is not imposed by the market as in perfect competition ).

The game is named after the economic concept of monopoly, the domination of a market by a single entity.

* Absorption of similar businesses under single management: similar portfolio invested by two different mutual funds namely united money market fund and united growth and income fund, caused the management to absorb united money market fund into united growth and income fund.

A monopoly describes a situation where all ( or most ) sales in a market are undertaken by a single firm.

There is no single model describing the operation of an oligopolistic market.

In some markets there is a single firm that controls a dominant share of the market and a group of smaller firms.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

What is the history of criticism but the history of men attempting to make sense of the manifold elements in art that will not allow themselves to be reduced to a single philosophy or a single aesthetic theory??

The connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.

Of course, there must be clarity: a single distinct impression is more valuable than many fuzzy ones.

The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.

No attempt is made by Ptolemy to weld into a single scheme ( a-la-Aristotle ), these independent predicting-machines.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

But the secretary insists that the success of the American farmer is the `` greatest single source of strength '' in the struggle to insure freedom around the world.

What we must have, if the United Nations is to survive, is as nonpolitical, nonpartisan an organization at the top as human beings can make it, subject to no single nation's direction and subservient to no single nation's ambition.

It is another question whether `` they '' -- or a single general, off in a corner of China, secure for a few ( galvanizing??

First, the present situation is too varied to be systematized by any single formula.

These factors practically insure that no single financing formula is feasible ; ;

The Machine Tool Division is currently producing Brown & Sharpe single spindle automatic screw machines, grinding machines of many types, and knee and bed-type milling machines.

A true university, like most successful marriages, is a unity of diversities Without forcing all components into a single pattern, the preparation of a master plan is an opportunity to consider interrelation of knowledge at its highest level, which a university -- in contrast to a multiversity -- should stand for.

The last exercise of Roland Claude's prescribed program for Henri is a single exercise, done in individual sets with a bit longer pause between sets.

Every single problem touched on thus far is related to good marketing planning.

He proposed that each element consists of atoms of a single, unique type, and that these atoms can join together to form chemical compounds.

A one-dimensional array ( or single dimension array ) is a type of linear array.

A modern main battle tank incorporates advances in automotive, artillery, and armour technology to combine the best characteristics of the historic medium and heavy tanks into a single, all around type.

Many analytical chemists focus on a single type of instrument.

Burns coined the term Sasquatch, which is from the Halkomelem sásq ’ ets (), and used it in his articles to describe a hypothetical single type of creature reflected in these various stories.

A chemical element is specifically a substance which is composed of a single type of atom.

Because the instructions can be carried out in different types of computers, a single set of source instructions converts to machine instructions according to the central processing unit type.

Also in case of Single Instructions Multiple Data — a case when a lot of data from the same type has to be processed, modern processors can disable parts of the pipeline so that when a single instruction is executed many times, the CPU skips the fetch and decode phases and thus greatly increases performance on certain occasions, especially in highly monotonous program engines such as video creation software and photo processing.

* Year collections: Rather than being satisfied with a single specimen of a type, a great many collectors collect type by year ; for example, one Memorial Lincoln Cent for every year from 1959 ( the year it was first minted ) to present.

* A type of anthology consisting of works by a single author

( t ) he use of two channels, one transmitting the predominating color ( signal T ), and the other the mean brilliance ( signal t ) output from a single television transmitter to be received not only by color television receivers provided with the necessary more expensive equipment, but also by the ordinary type of television receiver which is more numerous and less expensive and which reproduces the pictures in black and white only.

A single, particular banana would be an instance of the " Banana " class, an object of the type " Banana ".

The Ejército de Mexico uses a single long, rectangular metal tag with oval ends, embossed with Name, serial number, and blood type plus Rh factor.

This argument rests on the assumption that one can have a " moral " discussion on various scales ; that is, what is " good " for: a certain part of your being ( leaving open the possibility of conflicting motives ), you as a single individual, your family, your society, your species, your type of species.

* Frequency Disturbance Recorder, a type of single phase phasor measurement unit

The separate species and subspecies developed from a single type of gorilla during the Ice Age, when their forest habitats shrank and became isolated from each other.

With Gopher, every document has a defined format and type, and the typical user navigates through a single server-defined menu system to get to a particular document.

One strategy, packing, is to concentrate as many voters of one type into a single electoral district to reduce their influence in other districts.

Cases of death or permanent neurological damage occurring with a single episode have usually involved prolonged, untreated unconsciousness, interference with breathing, severe concurrent disease, or some other type of vulnerability.

Turret presses, most commonly of the " C " type, are similar to single stage presses, but permit mounting all of the dies for one cartridge ( or sometimes two cartridges ) simultaneously, with each die being installed and correctly locked in position with lock rings onto the press at the same time.

There are two types of incunabula in printing: the Block book printed from a single carved or sculpted wooden block for each page, by the same process as the woodcut in art ( these may be called xylographic ), and the typographic book, made with individual pieces of cast metal movable type on a printing press.

The insulin pump delivers a single type of rapid-acting insulin in two ways:

While there is no single " type " of organizational culture, some researchers have developed models to describe different organizational cultures.

Although the term " metallic bond " is often used in contrast to the term " covalent bond ", it is preferable to use the term metallic bonding, because this type of bonding is collective in nature and a single " metallic bond " does not exist.