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"With people checking bombs in suitcases and machine-gunning travelers in airports, why are security guards worrying about antique dinner knives and staplers and pinking shears? Apparently, because the government tells them to."

-Virginia I. Postrel, "On the Cutting Edge"

"Although the various players in the industry don't fully realize it yet, satellite TV could erode, perhaps even wipe out, the monopolistic foundations on which the cable-TV industry was built."

--Milton Mueller, "Dishing Out Competition"

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