The poll was conducted a month before what Democrats and Republicans view as an extraordinarily competitive round of midterm Congressional elections.

It's extraordinarily competitive for research grants, gifts, faculty, students.

Johnson's boss, Angelos, and the most important player in Johnson's clubhouse, Cal Ripken, are both extraordinarily competitive and stubborn.

"It's an extraordinarily competitive marketplace right now," said John McMillin, a food industry analyst for Prudential Securities.

They were extraordinarily competitive.

Retailing is extraordinarily competitive, and consumers can choose among specialty stores, department stores, discounters, catalogues and television home shopping.

That movement is another manifestation of how the support for both candidates is fluid - and how extraordinarily competitive the race is.

In the extraordinarily competitive imported beer market in the United States, it would be difficult, under the best of circumstances, for Tsingtao to significantly expand its sales.

The economy subcompact market is extraordinarily competitive.

Recently Urban Meyer and other coaches have developed extraordinarily competitive schemes using an option attack out of the shotgun formation.