And the chaos in gymnastics, with dueling coaches giving conflicting advice to their charges, would give any competitor nation a vision that the center may not be holding.

Mr. Kerry promised to open export markets in Japan and China and to require competitor nations to lower tariffs along with the United States.

Playing a significant role in national policy execution during numerous headline world events, the squadron excelled in the area of competitor nations' emerging ASW technologies and naval capabilities.

U.S. government assistance in export promotion lags behind almost all of our key competitor nations.

They rose to fifth place among arms exporters, helped perhaps by the embargoes constraining some competitor nations.

The competitor nations cannot all succeed.

All competitor nations are investing hard in tertiary education.

Many of our competitor nations have embarked upon dramatic national programs for the development of their Olympic teams and athletes.

Even more urgent, it must raise its educational standards to provide the skilled technicians who are being trained rapidly in competitor nations like Malaysia and the Philippines.

What is needed is greater cooperation between the European Union and the other competitor nations, such as the United States, Russia, the Ukraine, Japan and China.