Companies are far better equipped to compete with their international rivals than they were ten years ago'.

They stuck to their downtown and main street stores until the company had lost too much market share to compete with its rivals.

The big airlines, however, are very selective about when and where they compete with smaller rivals on price.

Bassanio needs money so that he can compete with his rivals.

It also provided systematically for technical education, without which British workers could not hope to compete with foreign rivals.

Cable operators, however, say they need the freedom to compete better with new rivals, including, most likely, the telephone companies.

If not, you will have to compete with your rivals on a level pitch.

Independent publications are hard put to compete with their state-owned rivals.

Instead, they found themselves struggling to compete with several sleek rivals for attention and traction.

Such subsidies become unworkable, however, when the telephone company must compete with new rivals.