21.   Unless creators can rely on copyright laws to keep competitors from pirating these, Lotus says, companies will hesitate to spend millions to develop new programs.

22.   Until recently, companies of similar size often made deals, normally with little reason except to get bigger and keep competitors at bay.

23.   Ultimately, APS hopes to keep competitors at bay by offering cheap power of its own.

24.   An Iowa tire retread company is one of two manufacturers accused of collaborating to keep a competitor out of the market.

25.   DHL accused both companies of trying to use legal filings to keep competitors from encroaching in the United States.

26.   European Union officials urged Japan Wednesday to try harder to cut excessive regulations blamed for keeping foreign competitors out of Japanese markets, a Japanese official said.

27.   HONGKONG Telecom CSL on Tuesday launched an initiative apparently aimed at keeping its competitors at bay in the increasingly competitive mobile telephone market.

28.   Kodak contends Tokyo-based Fuji has rigged the Japanese photographic market to keep foreign competitors out.