11.  He said the most competitive force in the computer industry is not Microsoft, but customer demand.

12.  Helmsley-Spear has faded as a competitive force in recent years, though it still has a significant portfolio.

13.  If it would, the merger would needlessly weaken competitive forces.

14.  Like many ambitious high school seniors, Peto suffered from a confluence of competitive forces making it increasingly difficult to gain admission to the most selective schools.

15.  Now, with the first digital broadcasts less than a year away, Washington lobbying battles have given way to local-market competitive forces.

16.  Once allowed into the long-distance business, regional Bell operating companies such as Southwestern Bell also will be potent competitive forces.

17.  Phil is still young and has plenty of time to win a major and become a competitive force.

18.  Professors Piketty and Saez suggest that the new wage patterns established during the war were difficult to reverse, even with competitive forces pushing in the opposite direction.

19.  That change led to the collapse of many venerable securities firms and radically altered the competitive forces in the securities industry.

20.  The Bundesbank prefers auctioning the credits at variable rates, allowing the competitive forces of the market to help set interest-rate policy.