11.   Competition is becoming intense to add more in-flight bunks, although most are spartan affairs.

12.   Competition has become international as other nations have offered cheap labor and other economic incentives to US companies that agree to move.

13.   Competition became more intense, shopping shifted away from regional malls and customers began putting a premium on good service, which was never a Petrie Stores strength.

14.   Consumer groups warn that if not enough regulations are in place, the larger companies would get larger, competition would become elusive and prices would go up.

15.   Competition has become ferocious as the record number of high school students applying to colleges nationwide casts an ever-wider net.

16.   Competition has become so ruthless that both auction houses are being pushed and pulled by demanding clients who play one company against the other.

17.   Early on, Goebel nailed the quad-triple combination and the competition became his to win or lose.

18.   Franco-American economic competition has become so cutthroat that France felt compelled last year to expel a number of Americans who were accused of spying on its economy.

19.   Foreign competition then became the incentive for the Big Three and its union workers to build vehicles able to turn back the competitive threat.

20.   Healthy competition can quickly become hellish aggression.