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Big suppliers are constantly plagued by part-time, backyard entrepreneurs who undercut prices.

Competition has increased in recent years, as new low-cost carriers entered the market, undercutting prices set by more established airlines.

It's not that fewer Catholics are dying or that competition is undercutting prices.

It is an anti-competitive tactic that warns competitors not to attempt to steal market share by undercutting prices.

In December, for instance, many sites offered free shipping and deep discounts that undercut prices at their very own brick-and-mortar stores.

And they also charge that by undercutting prices, the vendors damage the very businesses that employ Harlem residents.

These subsidies are possible only in a regulated monopoly environment, because competitors can instantly undercut prices that are far above actual costs.

Government subsidies in those countries range from 20 to 30 percent of the cost of a ship, allowing builders to significantly undercut prices in America.

Mr. Haft's fortune was built on a gutsy battle to overturn laws that prohibited retailers from undercutting prices set by manufacturers for common consumer products.

But in this case, said Mr. Castleman, "Since we were undercutting prices, we lost money at the bakery.

When the danger is distant, perhaps uncertain, as with chronic conditions, there is less willingness to pay, which undercuts prices and profits, Dr. Milstein explained.

Worried that Pioneer might undercut prices being charged by other licensees, Monsanto asked Pioneer to renegotiate the 1992 and 1993 deals, according to executives involved in the talks.

To accomplish this, he undercut prices, and also brought a landmark legal case - Gibbons v. Ogden - to the United States Supreme Court to overturn the monopoly.

Economists have picked apart Standard Oil's bookkeeping entries and concluded that, in fact, Rockefeller paid fair sums for the companies he bought and undercut prices by brilliantly increasing efficiency.

Just as important, its foreign competitors in the resins and automotive components industries are finding it more difficult to undercut prices and win away Borg-Warner's customers in the United States.

Saying that imports have badly undercut prices and destroyed profitability, Mr. Bradley argued that high tariffs were needed to lift prices and nurse domestic steel makers back to health.

Scrambling to increase revenue last year, the Red Cross opened a drive to get a bigger share of the blood market by poaching donors in areas served by community blood banks and undercutting prices to hospitals.

Steve Merrell, a manager for the IDS Global Bond Fund and an active investor in Russian dollar bonds, said that underwriters torpedoed the market with the deluge of new issues, undercutting prices.

Traditional Republican supporters, like large drug companies, praise him, so it might seem predictable that he would take a strong stand as he is doing this week against importing prescription drugs from Canada, a practice that undercuts prices here.

Those arrangements become unworkable when rivals can undercut prices for business services that are artificially high, so the new legislation would set up a multi-billion-dollar fund for universal service that would be financed by all telecommunications carriers.

"It came on the market in 1919 and by 1921 the impact of the Morris at undercut prices killed it off, although not before cars had been supplied to the Princess Royal and to S.F. Edge."

The more skilled he became, the more referrals he got, the more he undercut prices of competitors, the more he began to specialize in abortion, making it the main focus of his practice by the late 1970s.

The resulting tax break allowed East India to sell tea for half the old price and cheaper than the price of tea in Great Britain, enabling the firm to undercut prices offered by colonial merchants and smugglers.

Sitting in Kyoto, Mr. Yamauchi diagnosed the problem: Atari and others had lost control of the video-game software market, allowing poor-quality games to flood the market, undercutting prices and the reputation of the game systems.

In a change from its usual practices, Advanced Micro, which survives by undercutting prices of competing Intel chips, said it would set its prices using overall performance instead of so-called clock speed, a measure of the chip's electronic heartbeat.