1.   In cities and towns across Massachusetts, turf battles are raging between local fire departments and private for-profit ambulance companies that compete to provide emergency medical services.

2.   It is also competing to provide telecommunications services to several major California universities and the state of California.

3.   Lines between banks, brokerages and insurers are blurring as companies compete to provide financial planning to baby boomers.

4.   Major banks have decided the movie business makes increasing sense as an investment and are competing to provide new financing packages for the major studios, investment bankers report.

5.   Regulators hope to force electric companies to compete against one another to generate power the way that long-distance companies now compete to provide telephone service.

6.   The Arizona Corporation Commission tomorrow is expected to approve rules under which telecommunications companies will compete to provide telephone service in the state.

7.   The two companies also compete to provide online services.

8.   Canada, Japan and the United States are competing to provide the nuclear technology for the plants.

9.   The main groups competing to provide services for the new generation of digital television networks found themsleves partners in various alliances.