21.   But the plan -- a venture between the government and Ford, GM and Chrysler -- was criticized by smaller competitors in the race for cleaner cars.

22.   But with rapidly changing consumer tastes and lifestyles, improved technology and smaller competitors grabbing niches in the expanding beverage market, those days are over.

23.   By lowering costs, DuPont will be able to more effectively compete with smaller competitors that have entered the fibers industry.

24.   College-aged readers are also undercounted, he argued, because Mediamark and its smaller competitor, the Simmons Market Research Bureau, do not survey college dormitories.

25.   EDS has lost ground to smaller competitors such as Computer Sciences Corp., which offer many of the same data processing services at lower prices.

26.   Far smaller competitors include Reveal, which is owned by the computer maker Packard Bell Electronics, and Diamond, a privately held company.

27.   For smaller competitors, such moves by the industry giants could pose a threat.

28.   Greyhound Lines Inc., now the only coast-to-coast bus system, has thus had to stand by as far smaller competitors came to dominate a promising market.

29.   He said the company had not seen a slowdown in Europe, where it believed it was gaining market share from smaller competitors.

30.   Ikea can also buy merchandise from its suppliers more cheaply than smaller competitors and pass the savings along to shoppers.