1.  Analysts said that the company had found it hard to compete with the larger players given its debt and the rapidly escalating cost of acquisitions.

2.  Because the Japanese game emphasizes pitching, Jongewaard said, many larger Japanese players are pitchers, not sluggers.

3.  Already, Parr and Sterling said they had seen a number of innovative sites fold or sell out to larger players.

4.  But his investment is small compared to what larger players are spending.

5.  Despite its small size, the unit has many of the control features of larger CD players.

6.  Growing competition from distant suppliers and larger players, meanwhile, means relying on strengths developed through tradition.

7.  How larger Internet players will fare also remains uncertain.

8.  Indian leaders say they welcome the opportunity to become larger political players, opening doors in Washington that have long been closed to their people.

9.  Lehmann and Wolfson joined a subculture of younger real estate investors, some of them the children of larger players, who were dealing in the low-income housing market.

10.  The acquisition gives it control of a competitor for one of its formats in Minneapolis and makes Chancellor a larger player there, said Demott.