But at the moment the two men are in head-on competition.

The House and Senate committees are also pushing to raise money before they have to go into head-on competition with the Presidential race.

Its discount stores, which suffer from head-on competition with Wal-Mart, showed a meager 1.5 percent gain in same-store sales last month.

It has some significance in that Nokia is moving deeper into the world of Internet services, where head-on competition with Microsoft, Google and Apple is inevitable.

Struggling to turn a profit against the head-on competition of discounters, carriers will reduce capacity and trim service over all, analysts say.

The other main London papers would have limited readership in northern Ireland and it would be difficult to consider them as "head-on competition".

The decision, described by investor representatives as 'momentous', will bring Lloyd's into head-on competition with leading insurers such as Commercial Union, Prudential and Allianz.

On 2 June 2003, Coast Air started its first head-on competition with Scandinavian Airlines.

Jaguar Rolls-Royce and Morgan can chart their own production methods, quaint as some of them seem, because each is in a niche without head-on competition.

AS a way of sidestepping head-on competition with Wal-Mart, Kmart has worked hard to increase apparel sales.