21.   Democrats argue that this provision would stifle competition, because it would allow the two most natural competitors in the industry to team up under one tent.

22.   Federal antitrust officials pledged Tuesday to fight any airline alliance that stifles competition.

23.   He found the big software maker to be a monopolist whose business practices stifled competition and harmed consumers.

24.   In addition, the Transportation Department proposed a new enforcement policy last year that would punish airlines that tried to stifle competition.

25.   In February, Pepsico Inc. filed an objection to the takeover with the French government, contending that it would stifle competition.

26.   In July several microbrewers filed private antitrust suits charging Anheuser-Busch with unfairly using its market clout to stifle competition.

27.   In telecommunications, they wonder whether the government has been so permissive as to stifle competition.

28.   In his ruling earlier this month, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson found that Microsoft was a predatory monopolist whose illegal conduct stifled competition.

29.   Inevitably, the debate over whether these patents foster innovation, or whether they stifle competition, will continue.

30.   Instead, they said, the conspiracy involved vendors agreeing to submit false bids to stifle competition for the food contracts.