41.   Rexrodt said the disadvantages of the merger, which regulators said would stifle competition in the potash market, far outweigh the benefits to the economy.

42.   Seventeen company officials face charges including attempted murder, racketeering and conspiring to stifle competition.

43.   So in early June, Welch took the corporate jet to Brussels to take a last stab at convincing Monti that the deal would not stifle competition.

44.   Some people rail at Microsoft for stifling personal computer competition.

45.   Still, it was a day of mixed messages for Hundt, who has been vocal on how huge mergers can stifle competition in the telephone business.

46.   Such Microsoft tactics, the Justice Department asserts, are part of a pattern of predatory practices intended to stifle competition.

47.   Such a duopoly, opponents say, could stifle competition.

48.   Texas regulators said they were concerned that the transaction would stifle rail competition in the state.

49.   That dominance could enable the companies to stifle competition in the local phone market, critics of the deal say.

50.   That practice appears to stifle competition in just the way the consent decree was meant to prevent.