Until now, the Bush administration had been pressing government agencies to put 15 percent of jobs that are not "inherently governmental" into private competition.

The ostensible purpose of the Bush administration's plan to open up 850,000 federal jobs to private competition is to promote efficiency.

In 1981 we introduced private competition for deliveries over £1.

Deng opened China to foreign investment, the global market and limited private competition.

The daisy won a 1980s private competition about choosing a national flower, but has not been officially adopted.

The aim is to help struggling children perform in their regular classrooms, while invigorating public education with private competition.

But the biggest reason is that the program uses a model of consumer choice and private competition to deliver the benefit.

A large map of the world that covered one wall was his chess game, his private competition, where he challenged himself.

Proponents have argued that the measure would improve public schools by enhancing private competition and making the education system more flexible.

So what's to be done about encouraging private competition to the near-monopoly now held by government?