1.   Hitachi has beaten their competition to the punch with a new line of mainframe computers.

2.   Over time the original emphasis of the programme has broadened from increasing liberalization and competition to raising money for current spending.

3.   Selling state assets itself will bring little competition to over-centralised economies, if private monopolies replace state ones.

4.   Wimbledon followed suit a little later by opening up competition to professional tennis players.

5.   This assumes that firms always set price equal to average costs because they are constrained by the level of competition to making only normal profits.

6.   Take it on past, the sort of club competitions to major regattas and you come up against sponsorship.

7.   Forces working to equalize profit rates could hardly have transmitted the effects of international competition to these insulated sectors in such a short space of time.

8.   Rival small company market could develop along the above lines and would provide a considerable degree of competition to the ISE.

9.   Such rewards are offered as prizes in a competition to those individuals or groups who perform best against a specific set of objectives.