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“For every Element that they have been able to monopolize, we have two. I never thought it would come to this but perhaps, as with all things, the time has come,” he wrote Friday.

Major sponsors are still ubiquitous at the Games, where only Visa credit cards are accepted and Coca-Cola products monopolize the concession stands, but venues and fields of play have remained commercial-free.

But the task of depicting a future Los Angeles hasn’t been monopolized by fiction writers.

Schepple said, “We can spot the legalistic autocrats while they are still consolidating power because they have ambitions to monopolize power and tend to use the same toolbox of tricks.”

On one side was Continental and Northwest, which claimed larger rival American Airlines had illegally lowered fares to monopolize certain markets.