Despite the concessions they have already won, the biggest utility customers are pressing for more, in New York and elsewhere: full-scale deregulation, with the promise of even lower rates from wide-open competition.

Mr. Khurana starts by exploring the market for chief executives, which many people might assume is a wide-open competition that works in the same way as other markets.

Aided by a sharp tongue and penetrating intelligence, he has become Brussels' leading champion of wide-open competition.

Congress opened a new era of wide-open competition in the communications industry last week, passing legislation to rewrite the country's 62-year-old communications laws from top to bottom.

Mr. Levine favors outright repeal of the prohibition for the airlines of countries that accept wide-open competition on international routes.

But according to many economic analysts, they are also a potent threat to the wide-open competition that has forced airlines to pass on the savings from deregulation to consumers.

It is going to start with the quarterback position and Coslet has already said it is going to be a wide-open competition for the job.

"We've always said it was a wide-open competition."

The Jets have made plenty of changes on offense, leaving them with no seasoned wide receivers, a wide-open competition at tailback and almost an entirely new offensive line.

With Congress suddenly intent on bringing the nation's communications laws into the digital age, telephone and cable television companies all say they favor nothing more than wide-open competition.