1.   And foreign companies, including a rival from tiny neighboring Slovakia, are taking its customers.

2.   And while Peres is unchallenged as leader of Labor, Netanyahu presides over a coalition that includes bitter rivals.

3.   CCIA, whose members include Microsoft rival Sun Microsystems Inc., supports the Justice Department.

4.   Eventually, Apple will give a license to virtually any company that requests one, including rivals, he said.

5.   Gates said it was an industry trend that software makers, including rivals Netscape Communications Corp. and Oracle Corp., integrate more and more functions into software.

6.   Investors in StorageNetworks include EMC rival Dell Computer Corp., and executives from Compaq and Sun Microsystems, two other competitors, serve as technical advisers.

7.   Some invitations apparently had a political motivation, for the guests included potential rivals like Steve Forbes and Lamar Alexander, along with various governors and members of Congress.

8.   The McDonnell pairing was selected over those of six others, including rivals British Aerospace Plc and General Electric Co. Plc of Britain.

9.   The victims have included his rivals in the drug trade as well as several journalists.

10.   Berisha has agreed to a caretaker government that includes political rivals, but critics claim he has not relinquished control of secret police and other government powers.