31.   Singapore wants to become a financial center to rival Hong Kong, if not New York or London, and has been gradually introducing greater competition.

32.   Soon, demands grew for the government to introduce competition into the registration business.

33.   Such a move would prevent Telecom Eireann from using its stranglehold on phone networks to sew up the market even after full competition is introduced.

34.   The agency was concerned about introducing new competition in the discount segment of the cigarette market.

35.   The agency will also decide how to introduce competition in fixed-line telephone service by awarding concessions to compete with former Telebras units.

36.   The Democratic leadership of the State Assembly on Tuesday announced a plan to introduce competition into the utility industry in the hope of eliminating regional monopolies across the state.

37.   The government has also set a calendar to regulate when long-distance telephone competition will be introduced in Mexican cities outside Mexico City.

38.   The industry restructuring, which proposes freeing prices and introducing competition among power generators, will eliminate such political battles in the future, Chubais said.

39.   They could introduce competition by eliminating the premium controls.

40.   They defended the deal on the grounds that it would introduce more competition in the United States among wireless carriers.