When and if Microsoft flounders in aptly exploiting its "monopoly" status, competitors will rush in to swipe the business.

Long after his competitors had rushed to use cheaper contract labor in developing countries, Mr. Haas resisted the dry efficiencies of globalization.

If the stores prosper, analysts expect competitors to rush to new markets with something similar.

The company had inadvertently referred to the service in a corporate filing, and Mr. Kahn felt sure competitors would be rushing to develop similar programs.

Then, in 1981, the price of cocaine collapsed as competitors rushed into what had been a cozy little local business.

Soon there were literally hundreds of similar models on the market, and Rockwell's competitors also rushed in with similar chipsets of their own.

As an example, he cited their unwillingness to enter the gilt-edged market, or that for British Government securities, when competitors rushed in.

As soon as I.B.M.'s standard keyboard emerged in 1984, competitors rushed to copy it.

After the first generic version is approved, competitors rush to follow, and prices usually tumble.

As is typical, competitors rushed to match the move, which affected prices on tens of thousands of individual fares.