In the race to beat out national private competitors, the municipal employees cut costs, slashed overhead and improved services.

As the monopoly grew, it took over the tracks of the rest of its private competitors.

Or forcing Government-subsidized enterprises to compete against one another or against private competitors.

A large nonprofit insurer provides a benchmark for private competitors and an alternative for coverage.

It would also like to open up certain routes to private competitors.

There could come a time when a donor who wants to be anonymous will give to one of our private competitors instead of to us.

The remaining state-owned channels came under severe pressure from their private competitors and lost 30% of their market share between 1987 and 1989.

This lets Fannie Mae raise money at interest rates lower than its private competitors must pay.

I am for example not convinced that a state institution could beat the existing, long-standing private competitors.

The combined capacity of the building's entertainment venues is over 2000, dwarfing that of its nearby private competitors.