1.   Analysts said the increased competition would spur better performance and reduced prices.

2.   And some principals say competition has spurred the district to cut red tape.

3.   But for others, the competition is spurring an increase in capacity, as manufacturers vie to build the biggest factory, which should undersell all comers.

4.   Competition spurs this process.

5.   Competition spurs improvements in innovation, quality and jobs.

6.   McGuire says competition has spurred creation of a dozen new trucking companies and has cut some transportation costs by half.

7.   SBC argued against an investigation, saying lower prices spurred by competition are exactly the reaction telephone competition is supposed to trigger.

8.   Some community foundations acknowledge that the new competition has spurred them to improve.

9.   That competition has spurred numerous supermarket mergers, the most recent of which was the Ralphs Grocery Co. and Hughes Family Markets combination that closed in February.

10.   That was during the Cold War, when U.S.-Soviet space competition spurred the Russians to launch numerous robotic spaceships toward Venus.