The secret concessions would have helped lessen the "vicious" competition among the railroad lines by giving a steady, standardized flow of commerce.

What was it they'd always told us about the vicious competition of the profit system, where men had to compete for who'd do a better job than his fellows?

"They are seeing vicious competition from A.M.D. in flash," he said.

Henry Pryor, one of the few property experts who deserve the moniker, tells me that in Cambridge vicious competition has sent fees below 1%.

Technical issues soon took a back seat to vicious and public commercial competition between the two "open" versions of Unix, with X/Open holding the middle ground.

There's loads of checks and balances and a vicious competition on who will become the next Supreme Leader, or the next President.

That intensified Salomon's war against its competitors and also put department heads in vicious competition with one another.

In the vicious competition for investor dollars, managers of the nation's 350-odd mutual fund companies are learning to be salesman.

In the context of vicious global competition, that will generate nothing but unemployment.

At a London disco, a competition is held to find two dancers to star in a film leading to vicious competition.