1.   Andersen Consulting has been growing faster than Chicago-based Arthur Andersen, and the two units compete to offer some similar consulting services.

2.   Garden catalogs and garden centers are competing to offer the most up-to-date innovations.

3.   States and even countries compete to offer incentives to get technology to open up in their areas.

4.   They want companies that make both brand-name and generic drugs to compete to offer the best prices.

5.   Turnover was a problem, and larger companies competed to offer perks like technical training, schooling and mobility to keep their promising workers.

6.   With three programs vying for the audience, they compete to offer the most pungent political commentary.

7.   And he used the evidence for that concern to underscore the need to reduce the budget deficit as Republicans and Democrats compete to offer multibillion-dollar tax cuts.

8.   Before the alliance, the papers competed to offer some of the lowest ad rates in the country for metropolitan dailies.

9.   Before the JOA, the papers competed to offer some of the lowest ad rates in the country for metropolitan dailies.

10.   Consumers, he said, would benefit from such a practice as retailers would have to compete to offer the lowest prices for daily necessities.