21.   Competition also has forced Hall to stop paying for hotel accommodations and transportation for patients coming from out of state.

22.   Competition has forced the company to fire staff to cut costs.

23.   Electric power companies are consolidating because emerging competition is forcing them to cut costs and find new lines of business.

24.   Even as some companies raise their workers wages, they say competition will force them to keep prices of their products close to current levels.

25.   Free-market advocates say competition will force utilities to abandon or modernize inefficient power plants and cut prices for everyone.

26.   Greater competition could force the price of handsets and calling rates for mobile phones to fall, he said.

27.   He suspects intense competition forced Simosuchus to give up the carnivorous ways of normal crocodiles.

28.   He suggested competition has forced Net to improve its shopping centers or risk losing tenants.

29.   If these chemicals and their effects are widely publicized, said Connolly, market competition might force manufacturers to modify their products to make them less addictive.

30.   In addition, intense competition has forced Compaq to keep prices low.