Quarto and Monopoly are both what?
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Quarto (board game) Quarto is a board game for two players invented by Swiss mathematician Blaise Müller in 1991. It is published and copyrighted by Gigamic.
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Monopoly (game) Monopoly is a board game where players roll two six-sided dice to move around the game-board buying and trading properties, and then develop them with houses and hotels. Players collect rent from their opponents, with the goal being to drive them all into bankruptcy. Money can also be gained or lost through Chance and Community Chest cards, and tax squares; players can end up in jail, which they cannot move from until they have met one of several conditions. The game has numerous house rules and hundreds of different editions exist, in addition to many spin-offs and related media; "Monopoly" has become a part of popular world culture, having been locally licensed in more than 103 countries and printed in more than thirty-seven languages.
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Junta (game) Junta is a board game designed by Vincent Tsao published, as of 1985, by West End Games. Players compete as the corrupt power elite families of a fictional parody of a stereotypical banana republic (specifically "Republica de los Bananas") trying to get as much money as possible into their Swiss bank accounts before the foreign aid money runs out. Fighting in the republic's capital during recurrent coup attempts encompasses most of the game's equipment, rules and playtime. This game-within-the-game is however actually tangential to the players' main goal.
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Quarto Stato Quarto Stato (meaning the "Fourth State" in English) is an Italian political review (1946–1950), closely associated with the Partito Socialista Italiano, the Italian Socialist Party.
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Quark (kernel) In computing, Quark is an operating system kernel used in MorphOS. It is a microkernel designed to run totally virtualized computers, called "boxes" (see sandbox). Currently only one "Box" is available, the ABox, that lets users run existing AmigaOS software compiled for MC680x0 and PowerPC processors.
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Crony capitalism Crony capitalism is an economy in which businesses thrive not as a result of risk taken for them, but rather, as a return on money amassed through a nexus between a business class and the political class. This is done using state power to crush genuine competition in handing out permits, government grants, special tax breaks, or other forms of state intervention over resources where the state exercises monopolist control over public goods, for example, mining concessions for primary commodities or contracts for public works. Money is then made not merely by making a profit in the market, but by profiteering by 'rent seeking' using this monopoly or oligopoly. Entrepreneurship and innovative practices, which seek to reward risk are stifled, since the value-add is little by crony businesses as hardly anything of significant value is created by them, with transactions taking the form of 'trading'.
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List of London Monopoly locations The locations on the standard British version of the board game "Monopoly" are set in London and were selected in 1935 by Victor Watson, managing director of John Waddington Limited. Watson became interested in the board game after his son Norman had tried the Parker Brothers original US version and recommended the company produce a board for the domestic market. He took his secretary Marjory Phillips on a day-trip from the head offices in Leeds to London and the pair looked for suitable locations to use.
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Quarto Centenário Quarto Centenário is a municipality in the state of Paraná (PR) in Brazil.
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Linear production game "Linear Production Game" ("LP Game") is a N-person game in which the value of a coalition can be obtained by solving a Linear Programming problem. It is widely used in the context of resource allocation and payoff distribution. Mathematically, there are "m" types of resources and "n" products can be produced out of them. Product "j" requires formula_1 amount of the "kth" resource. The products can be sold at a given market price formula_2 while the resources themselves can not. Each of the "N" players is given a vector formula_3 of resources. The value of a coalition "S" is the maximum profit it can achieve with all the resources possessed by its members. It can be obtained by solving a corresponding Linear Programming problem formula_4 as follows.
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Regulatory competition Regulatory competition, also called competitive governance or policy competition, is a phenomenon in law, economics and politics concerning the desire of law makers to compete with one another in the kinds of law offered in order to attract businesses or other actors to operate in their jurisdiction. Regulatory competition depends upon the ability of actors such as companies, workers or other kinds of people to move between two or more separate legal systems. Once this is possible, then the temptation arises for the people running those different legal systems to compete to offer better terms than their "competitors" to attract investment. Historically, regulatory competition has operated within countries having federal systems of regulation - particularly the United States, but since the mid-20th century and the intensification of economic globalisation, regulatory competition became an important issue internationally.
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Quotable Value Limited Quotable Value Limited (QV) is a state-owned enterprise of the New Zealand government. Its main commercial operations are the provision of full market valuations.
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Peruvian nitrate monopoly The Peruvian nitrate monopoly was a state-owned enterprise over the mining and sale of saltpeter (sodium nitrate) created by the government of Peru in 1875 and operated by the Peruvian Nitrate Company. Peru intended for the monopoly to capitalize on the world market's high demand for nitrates, thereby increasing the country's fiscal revenues and supplementing the financial role that guano sales had provided for the nation during the Guano Era (1840s-1860s).
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Standard Oil Standard Oil Co. Inc. was an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller as a corporation in Ohio, it was the largest oil refinery in the world of its time. Its controversial history as one of the world's first and largest multinational corporations ended in 1911, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil was an illegal monopoly.
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Trente et Quarante Trente et Quarante (Thirty and Forty), also called Rouge et Noir (Red and Black), is a 17th-century gambling card game of French origin played with cards and a special table. It is rarely found in US casinos, but still very popular in Continental European casinos, especially in France, Italy, and Monaco. It is a simple game that usually gives the players a very good expected return of more than 98%.
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Elia System Operator Elia is a monopoly transmission system operator (TSO) for high-voltage electricity (30,000-380,000 volts), located in Brussels, Belgium. It operates in Belgium and Germany. The company transmits electricity from generators to distribution system operators, which then supply SMEs and homes. Elia also has contracts with major industrial users that directly connect to its high-voltage grid.
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QualPro QualPro, Inc. is a Knoxville, Tennessee-based management consultancy that uses multivariable testing to simultaneously test a large number of ideas to improve business processes or performance. The firm gathers ideas from the client organization’s staff at all levels, eliminates those that don't meet its criteria, and evaluates the remaining ideas through experiments that test 20-30 variables simultaneously.
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The Monopoly Game 2 The Monopoly Game 2 (ザ・モノポリーゲーム 2 , Za Monopori Gemu 2 ) is a Super Famicom strategy video game that is exclusive to Japan.
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Tampico Beverages Tampico Beverages is a manufacturer of juice concentrates, carbonated drinks, iced tea and gelatin. Selling under the TAMPICO brand name, it is available in the United States and more than 55 countries around the globe. Tampico Beverages is wholly owned by Houchens Industries, Inc, since 2008.
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Solarquest SolarQuest is a space-age real estate trading board game published in 1985 and developed by Valen Brost, after his having conceived the idea in 1976. The game is patterned after "Monopoly" but replaces pewter tokens with rocketships and hotels with metallic fuel stations. Players travel around the sun acquiring planet, moon, and man-made space structure monopolies while fending off attacks. They seek to knock their opponents out of the game through bankruptcy, as well as optional laser blasts and dwindling fuel supplies (when using the Advanced Play ruleset).
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Río Cuarto, Córdoba Río Cuarto is a city in the province of Córdoba, Argentina. Located in the south of the province, it has about 144,000 inhabitants (2001 census ) and is an important commercial and agricultural hub.
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Under the Boardwalk: The MONOPOLY Story Under the Boardwalk: The MONOPOLY Story is a 2011 documentary presenting a series of stories about the game of MONOPOLY and those who play it. The film was narrated by Zachary Levi, star of NBC's Chuck and Disney's Tangled, and directed by Kevin Tostado.
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Quamut Quamut is a collection of how-to guides launched in March 2008 by the bookstore chain Barnes & Noble. The core line of guides are all editorially written but there is also a section of user-contributed wiki guides. "Quamut" is the Latin for "how-to" and is pronounced "kwómut".