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De Beers: A Monopoly is not forever

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1. How did De Beers become a monopoly and how did it maintain its monopoly? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
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2. How did the three events affect De Beers’s monopoly?

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