As competition for students stiffens, recruiting campaigns have also taken off.

As the price rose and the competition stiffened, gasps were heard throughout the salesroom.

Such a decline, if true, would indicate that competition has stiffened in the mainframe business.

Both fought their way into the fourth round, where the competition will quickly stiffen.

The man's ego might take him beyond his set price, but as the competition stiffened, he traditionally became angry and dropped out.

In the last two years alone, he said, he has had to close three of his stores as competition from the Indians stiffened.

As competition stiffens, the biggest studios are becoming even more dominant.

The new products and lower prices prove that competition is stiffening amid sluggish sales of personal computers, analysts said.

But as competition stiffens, the differences in technique for each discipline have sharpened; today hardly anyone has the ability to be a generalist.

But competition among area real estate agencies has stiffened lately.