31.   Reidhead worries that subsidies that make basic phone service affordable for rural areas and poor customers will disappear in a competitive marketplace.

32.   Sheer inertia, bureaucratic guile and lobbying by companies that thought twice about what life would be like in a completely competitive marketplace resulted in reprieve after reprieve.

33.   States around the country are breaking up utility monopolies, hoping to create a competitive marketplace for electricity.

34.   The credit card companies contend that government intervention in an already competitive marketplace could prove disruptive.

35.   The Sandy Springs firm says it should be illegal for a quasi-governmental agency like the Postal Service to favor any private company in a competitive marketplace.

36.   They want more products, cheaper prices and a competitive marketplace.

37.   This map is seen from the flight control tower and shows a more competitive marketplace.

38.   Toysmart.com had hoped to carve out a niche in a competitive marketplace by offering safe, educational toys to parents.

39.   Unfortunately, the cost-saving measures that many companies are implementing due to financial pressures from an increasingly competitive marketplace may be serving to raise the ire.

40.   Wall Street has voted loudly and clearly in recent years about the way public company managers ought to behave in a competitive international marketplace.