Aspirations Week, a project seeking to promote an "aspirational" culture among vendors.

The Internet allows customers to retrieve lots of detailed financial information quickly and makes moving their business among vendors that much easier.

Competition among "vendors," as trailer companies are known, is fierce.

Large business customers generally spread their telecommunications business among several vendors.

Some nonprofit groups were concerned that the combination might limit competition among vendors.

Their reliance on Ethernet technology makes interoperability among vendors easy.

The forum also works to ensure interoperability among vendors and service providers.

Streamline information sharing among employees, vendors and customers through a password-protected, private Web site.

A free market can only exist where there is honest competition among vendors for the consumer's custom.

So is increased capacity, better fuel efficiency, cleaner air and competition among vendors.