11.   In addition, individual companies need to get serious about enhancing returns on equity, about controlling their costs and positioning themselves to meet global competition.

12.   Indian software companies like Hinditron Informatics Ltd. and Infosys Technologies Ltd. need more time to develop to meet competition.

13.   It also freed them to rapidly change prices to meet competition from the far more flexible and reliable truckers.

14.   It gives BT access to a newly liberalized U.S. market and gives MCI cash to meet unprecedented competition from local phone companies.

15.   It has been improving its systems by allowing stores to cut prices to meet local competition and to manage in-store inventories more efficiently.

16.   Leblanc said the Nouveau Marche hopes to meet the competition by creating small stock exchanges across Europe.

17.   Kookmin needs to improve its efficiency to meet foreign competition.

18.   Other customers filled out comment cards suggesting that Staples lower its prices to meet the competition.

19.   Riders from the International Snowboard Foundation will be meeting competition they have never before faced from International Federation of Skiing or other circles.

20.   Some companies already are moving to meet the competition.