61.   Patricia Yoder, a spokeswoman for GTE in Stamford, Conn., attributed the review to an increasingly competitive environment for telecommunications marketers.

62.   Rather it defends its actions as acceptable and legal in an extremely competitive environment in which patent suits are endemic and its own monopoly is actually quite precarious.

63.   Such facilities have become corporate nerve centers that can play a key role in a competitive environment.

64.   Such highly selective institutions operate in a fiercely competitive environment, and experts predict that others will follow suit.

65.   Tennis players, by nature ever determined to control their competitive environment, for the most part accept the idea that in Davis Cup, they cannot.

66.   Tauzin said, however, that the arbitration panel recommendation failed to take into consideration the competitive environment.

67.   The acquisition reflects the current view in the mutual fund industry that firms need to reach a critical mass to survive in an increasingly competitive environment.

68.   The benefits to the three suppliers include access to a new market with additional customers and the ability to explore a competitive environment without substantial risk.

69.   --The competitive environment will work against the giants.

70.   The competitive environment is only getting more intense.