1.   This from the party where everyone competed to be holier than thou, with no shoes in their childhood and rickets in their relatives.

2.   And they are competing to be the most widely used Internet media companies on the Web.

3.   Boston radio stations competed to be first with the news that Bourque had been traded to . . . Colorado.

4.   Boeing Co. and a team of Lockheed Martin Corp., Raytheon Co. and TRW Inc. are competing to be the lead contractor.

5.   Companies compete to be big, too.

6.   Fees provide a big incentive for law firms competing to be lead counsel representing lead plaintiffs in large class-action lawsuits, Hu said.

7.   It was never about winning, or competing to be strongest and fastest.

8.   Now they compete to be the most aggrieved in the court of world opinion.

9.   Not Los Angeles in competition with itself or another city, but existing teams competing to be in L.A.

10.   Of the two candidates competing to be the backup quarterback, Blundin received most of the snaps in the first two preseason games.