21.   Concern that competition will intensify kept businesses from predicting more rapid growth.

22.   Exclusive brands tend to provide fatter margins for their owners, and retailers like Wal-Mart and Kmart have increasingly turned to them as price competition intensifies.

23.   Goldman said in its report that during the next five years, competition will intensify as the cost of gathering and retaining assets rises substantially.

24.   Her arrival at Thompson is indicative of the efforts by the largest agencies to avoid losing ground as competition intensifies.

25.   Indeed, regional strength may be the key to playing HMOs properly, now that competition has intensified.

26.   Industry executives also believe that brand name identification will be steadily more important as competition intensifies in the wireless business.

27.   Instead, Blockbuster has been more of a drain as the market for videos peaked and competition intensified.

28.   Mutual funds are betting on stocks they would have shunned in the past, as competition intensifies among funds to offer investors a better return.

29.   Moreover, competition will probably intensify.

30.   One factor that forced Bradlees and Caldor Corp., another regional discounter, into bankruptcy was fierce competition, and that competition may only intensify.