51.   The biggest cities try to put on the biggest markets, thus failing miserably to recreate the charm and intimacy of their smaller competitors.

52.   The company is taking market share from smaller competitors.

53.   The commission said the merger would push smaller competitors out of the advertising market.

54.   The four biggest accounting firms and their smaller competitors will divide the remaining spoils.

55.   The industry producing the rods had recently consolidated, reducing supplies and removing a handful of smaller competitors.

56.   The Justice Department is investigating whether Anheuser-Busch Inc. has been using its enormous muscle to squeeze smaller competitors out of the beer market.

57.   The largest mortgage processors, like Chase, Norwest and Countrywide Credit Industries Inc., can profitably acquire smaller competitors by folding new accounts into their own processing systems.

58.   The largest U.S. maker of moist snuff including Skoal and Copenhagen has been losing market share to smaller competitors.

59.   The sheer size of the combined businesses of France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom is enough to scare smaller competitors.

60.   The smaller competitors also pose a challenge to the big German companies that plan to take on Deutsche Telekom.