1.   But it also has suffered from cumbersome marketing arrangements that have caused it to lose out to more nimble competitors, said a person close to British Telecom.

2.   By freeing the airline from state control, the German government hopes to make it a more nimble competitor in the European market.

3.   Even so, industry followers say nimble new competitors are waiting in the wings.

4.   Fierce, perhaps more nimble competitors will arrive soon, maybe siphoning off AOL Time Warner brains when they do.

5.   However, the walkout underscores difficulty the company will have in shedding jobs as it struggles to increase efficiency to meet competition from a host of nimble competitors.

6.   If it fails to do so, the result will be a huge company that will gradually see its markets picked off by more nimble competitors.

7.   In any event, Dell has proved to be a nimble competitor.

8.   Its big corporate health care business was being outmaneuvered by more nimble competitors in important markets across the country.

9.   The government has been urging banks here to combine and expand abroad or risk losing out to more nimble foreign competitors.