61.   Increasing price competition is eroding profit.

62.   It also cited weather in the Southeast and increased competition for its earnings shortfall.

63.   Is it going to increase competition somewhat in some areas the two companies might share?

64.   It also comes as lawmakers in Washington debate how to increase competition in the local phone market, which is largely controlled by the seven Baby Bells.

65.   It is deeply in debt and faces increasing competition from low-cost rivals on its core East Coast routes.

66.   It is designed to increase competition in the U.S. phone and cable-TV markets and free telecommunications companies from numerous government limits on their activities.

67.   It blamed higher mortgage interest rates for squeezing discretionary spending money and increased competition from clubs with poker machines.

68.   Jakubik cited lack of growth in the frozen-food industry and increased competition as reasons to sell Swanson.

69.   Korea will also accelerate market-based reforms to halt the outflow of short-term capital and further open its market to imports to increase competition.

70.   Late last month, Maseca said the government will delay until the third quarter a program that will increase competition in the subsidized corn tortilla market.