31.   Free competition must be promoted by encouraging small and medium-sized businesses and by removing the red tape and excessive regulation that stands in their way.

32.   Gingrich has cast the change as a move to promote competition between differing political philosophies, with the best ideas winning.

33.   Gov. George Pataki has endorsed that argument, but he has also promoted competition as a way to obtain deep cuts in residential rates.

34.   Government officials also said that the deal would promote competition both inside and outside the markets dominated by Bell Atlantic.

35.   Government officials have said OECD membership will help strengthen local companies by promoting free competition.

36.   Government has a strong stake in promoting price competition in the civil aviation industry.

37.   He said he would ask the Public Service Commission to promote competition for LILCO by providing open access to the transmission lines owned by the utility.

38.   He is allowing private investment in railroads and satellite operations, promising to further liberalize foreign investment rules and promoting more competition in domestic telephone services.

39.   He wants the group to examine what role, if any, the state should have in promoting competition among the oil companies.

40.   How much utilities should be allowed to collect on these investments is considered the biggest stumbling block to efforts to promote competition in the sale of electricity.