A parallel is drawn between the direction of a Japanese company's collective effort against outside competitors, and the ability to mobilize national effort.

Are mergers the answer to the coming challenges as many states deregulate and open their utilities to outside competitors?

It creates aggressive competition within its own ranks, but does its best to remove all outside competitors.

Its territory is ardently sought by outside competitors.

And they may be part of your company or an outside competitor.

And as the construction lender, a bank often is willing to offer better mortgage terms to buyers than those offered by outside competitors.

Sometimes when attacked by an outside competitor the slaves would fight for those attacking the caravan, killing their master and leaving them behind.

Players' names listed in parentheses indicate that the player won the tournament but did not receive the title since he was an outside competitor.

Are mergers the answer as many states prepare to give customers a choice in buying power and open their utilities to outside competitors?

Also, even if we had a binding code, that does not mean that the European Union's outside competitors would abide by it.