21.   Analysts said that it is unlikely that American would offer United much price competition on the routes.

22.   And fewer market makers means less price competition, leading to higher prices for investors.

23.   And the brutal price competition of the last two years is now exacting a heavy toll.

24.   And price competition remains intense in the computer industry.

25.   And, by trimming variable costs, it tempts companies with high fixed costs to engage in destructive price competition.

26.   Apple, which makes both computers and the software that runs on the machines, blamed fierce price competition in the personal computer market for its poor performance.

27.   As a result of price competition, Renault said, marketing costs increased, offsetting a worldwide rise in car sales.

28.   As a result of the transparency of the euro, as well as the elimination of the trade barriers, price competition within Europe has become brutal.

29.   Automakers are especially sensitive to the value of the yen, particularly at a time of recession, when price competition has grown.

30.   At the same time, price competition has become steadily more ferocious.