31.   The inquiry, which is being conducted by the Justice Department Antitrust Division, is seeking, in part, to determine whether any company sought to eliminate competition.

32.   The national companies, they assert, are stealing customers with artificially low prices that will rise when competition is eliminated.

33.   The new booking unit at ABC was supposed to eliminate in-house competition, making sure that both Sawyer and Walters got their share of trophy guests.

34.   The simplest way to eliminate the competition was to make it illegal.

35.   The United States had maintained that culture had never been the issue and that Canada was simply trying to eliminate foreign competition to its magazine industry.

36.   The team competition has been eliminated.

37.   They claim that to eliminate competition in the computer software business, Microsoft embedded Internet browser software into each Windows operating system.

38.   This not only reduces the number of trees requiring treatment, but encourages the strongest trees to thrive by eliminating competition from weaker or sicker trees.

39.   This, combined with free energy from the sun, would produce limitless resources and eliminate competition.

40.   Those price figures, the FTC said, make it likely that the companies would raise prices if they are allowed to eliminate head-to-head competition by merging.