41.  Regulators now say that there will be no limit to the number of competing companies that can enter the long-distance market.

42.  Recruiters and competing companies say they are seeing an increased flow of skilled workers putting out their resumes.

43.  Several free instant-message programs from competing companies have appeared.

44.  Telecommunications seems to be an industry in which one company can sometimes offer multiple services more efficiently than competing companies can provide separately.

45.  That opened the door for competing companies to begin offering competitive services, such as high-speed Internet access.

46.  That is a sensitive area, when firms buy time in Olympic telecasts and blur the exclusivity of Olympic logos purchased by competing companies.

47.  That decision will be based on information the Justice Department has already gathered from Microsoft and competing companies, Bingaman said.

48.  That may leave them holding the bag because Pennsylvania requires insurers to contribute to an insolvency fund to pay claims for competitors that fail, the competing companies said.

49.  The allure of so much gold, within such easy reach, impelled the competing companies to use whatever means they could to close a deal.

50.  The competing companies have argued successfully to date that their stents are significantly different in design.