We need a credible plan so those nations that have lost competitiveness regain it.

Japan has long since lost competitiveness as an exporter of bicycles.

With a fixed exchange rate, has not this country badly lost competitiveness?

Some critics contested the report's assumption that the United States was losing competitiveness.

Those nations that allowed "wages to grow faster than productivity" lost competitiveness.

"Foreign manufacturers invest, while we in America sit on our wallets steadily losing competitiveness."

And southern companies, which are losing competitiveness in labor-intensive industries, could take advantage of a low-cost work force speaking the same language.

This revaluation brought protests from the industrial sector, which felt that it lost competitiveness.

We want flexibility married with social protection but we do not want to lose competitiveness.

"Five years from now when our current products are losing competitiveness, we will be in trouble," he said.