The protection against this gloomy prognosis is the cartel office, which is fast establishing pro-competition credentials.
Scott Cleland is President of Precursor LLC a consultancy serving Fortune 500 clients, and is Chairman of Netcompetition.org, a pro-competition e-forum supported by broadband interests.
These are supply side reforms in fiscal (taxation, especially corporate taxation, and government spending) policies and pro-competition and pro-growth changes in restrictive regulations (especially with respect to labor, agriculture, and land use).
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One of them argues that the search engine is anti-competition in the way that it favors its own offerings for various services, while another argues that the very format is pro-competition and pro-consumer.
"Eurotunnel intends to continue to work with the Competition Commission to allay the concerns raised by existing ferry operators and to demonstrate that the creation of MyFerryLink is a good thing for the market as it is both pro-customer and pro-competition, " said chief executive Jacques Gounon.
But there is fierce competition among pro-Syrian politicians, and this allows the odd genuine opposition figure to slip into parliament.
Although Kensington and Chelsea is regarded as a safe Tory seat - Mr Clark held it with a majority of 9, 519 in 1997 - Mr Portillo faces competition for the right-of-centre vote from the Pro European Conservatives, the Referendum Party and the UK Independence Party among others.
These pro-growth reforms are the result of tax competition, or the pressure to adopt competitive economic policies that is put on governments by an increasingly globalized society where both labor and capital are mobile.
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Pro-immigration policies are particularly opposed by young people fearing competition from newcomers, says Keiichiro Asao, an opposition politician who supports letting in more foreigners.
In a bid to keep up in a laptop market chock-full of competition, Apple jammed new processors into its lineup of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops Tuesday.
Heading it are Megawati, Wahid and Hamengkubuwono X. (Though the sultan headed the Jogjakarta chapter of ruling grouping Golkar for nearly two decades, he is rarely associated by locals with the excesses of Suharto's political vehicle.) Since the ex-strongman also prevented competition from developing political track records, parentage remains a key indication of a person's pro-people credentials.
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