1.   Cities compete for prime-pick foreign workers as they would for a foreign auto plant.

2.   Outside California, no big city must compete for new jobs and businesses while hampered by such restrictions, McGrory said.

3.   The cities are competing against each other to attract and retain business.

4.   Five other cities had been competing for the honour of staging the Games.

5.   Begun two years ago, the empowerment zone program challenged cities nationwide to compete for funds by bringing local money and businesses together to promote jobs and economic independence.

6.   Few cities can compete with Lima for the quality and variety of its underground provender.

7.   He added that a large indoor arena would allow the city to compete for events like the Super Bowl.

8.   In fact, a year before Hong Kong reverts to Chinese control, the two cities are already competing.

9.   That city will compete against an international field that likely will include Paris, Rome, London, Madrid, Moscow and possibly Toronto.

10.   The city is competing with Aberdeen, Md., a Washington, D.C., suburb, and with Pine Bluff, Ark.