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The state hired GC Services in a competitive bid process.
Tens of thousands of students are taking the competitive National Latin exam.
With fewer insurance companies, corporations need brokerages to help them negotiate competitive rates.
"One of the things we've been working on over the past several years is our value image," said Megahan, naming dairy and nonorganic produce as areas where Whole Foods touts its prices as competitive with larger, more moderate supermarket chains such as Safeway and Albertson's.
The number of House races deemed competitive has plunged from about 150 in 1992 to an expected 35 next year.
If they don't get on the bandwagon, giant Wal-Mart will leave them in the competitive dust, they say.
Doom is their business, and a highly competitive one at that.
We have a lot of ball control, and we're just as competitive on defense as we were last year.''I've had a few quarterbacks like him before, spunky and competitive.
The industries were so competitive that elements such as the configuration of a workforce or how much labour was used at different times of the day could be a crucial point of difference.
Jackson is a top-scoring competitive paddler, one of the best kayak teachers around and a regular columnist on paddling techniques in boating magazines, those in the industry said.
Last year, Jackson quit his job at Wave Sport to enter the competitive market of building whitewater kayaks himself.
The U.S. market is highly competitive, and in such competitive markets, savings on input costs are inherently incorporated in lower product and service prices.
It is competitive pressures, rather than avarice, that drives widespread hiring of illegal immigrants.
But Hauser said that by voiding the map because of insufficient competitive districts, the judge essentially has reopened the debate on all 30 legislative districts.
That group contends the commission paid little heed to the mandate to create competitive districts when possible.
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