1.   As universities compete among themselves for a shrinking number of applicants, they are tending to distinguish themselves by specializing.

2.   As the market grows, startups are even beginning to compete among themselves.

3.   Banks have so many fees and service charges these days that customers have begun competing among themselves to see who can find the worst deal.

4.   A robot named MiniBob was among those competed recently at Trinity College in Hartford to see which one could find a candle flame fastest and extinguish it.

5.   A woman from Iran will compete among the recreational runners this year, and another from Algeria and China.

6.   But the producers within Japan compete among themselves, and each is afraid of losing business by raising prices.

7.   Now, with Lungren identifying himself in every ad as a Republican, Checchi must compete among Democrats against Harman and the ironically fresh face of Gray Davis.

8.   Officials said Tenet had several ideas, including the need for a unified security operation without factions that competed among themselves and tolerated or fomented terrorism.

9.   Passenger capacity has moved rearward even as Olds could not compete among SUVs - and, notably, four-door trucks.

10.   Several former Whitbread maxi-yachts are competing among the nine sailboats signed up so far.