31.  It is an arrangement that, over heated protests from competing companies, won special approval from the Weld administration.

32.  It required American companies like Cooper Tire to have their tires inspected in the laboratories of competing companies in Mexico.

33.  Koci said a competing company provided a better product.

34.  More recently, Microsoft has taken a new approach that supports sharing management of identity services among competing companies.

35.  Nine years later, they had a falling out, and Brown started a competing company.

36.  One approach is to split off the Windows operating system component and divide this into three competing companies.

37.  Other recruiting and technology specialists said competing companies should work together to adopt standard technology for the entire industry.

38.  One of the great American pastimes is seeing how we rank compared with our neighbors, co-workers, competing companies and other nations.

39.  Regulators here said there would be no limit on the number of competing companies that can enter the long-distance market.

40.  Representatives of competing companies, such as Michaels, which has five area locations, declined to comment.