Most companies have a product or a service they compete with others to sell to customers.
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Traum believes that when they compete in mainstream races, they change opinions on two levels.
Olympic athletes are put on a pedestal by millions around the world as they compete for gold.
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It is designed to introduce some competition between higher ranking universities as they compete for the highest achievers.
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As bond yields come up, they compete for investment dollars from other yield-heavy investments, so the theory goes.
In many countries, broadband suppliers have invested in their networks as they compete to offer the fastest connections.
They compete for the opportunity to return to the job year after year.
They compete against each other in quest of the individualized Wimbledon singles trophies.
The question for patent holders is, can they compete with their open-source competitors?
This will become a valuable marketing tool as they compete for future business.
They compete with their teenage kids for jobs in local fast-food places.
This can give you a good profile of how they compete with each other and where the market is going.
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Until Amazon has exclusive access to content for which people are willing to pay a premium, they compete only on price.
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The goal is to select a car and a truck that set new benchmarks in the classes in which they compete.
American workers are the most productive in the world, and when they compete on level playing fields, they do so ably.
There's already indication that some publishers and authors who use the agency model are dropping prices as they compete for customers.
Now we have a story about a tyrannical tycoon, Mr. O'Hare, who opposes oxygen-producing trees because they compete with his bottled-air business.
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And to help guarantee equal treatment for faith-based organizations when they compete for Federal funds, I ask you to permanently extend Charitable Choice.
But states are not competing with one another for limited natural-gas industry jobs and capital as they compete for, say, an automotive plant.
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Mr Zapatero has spotted a problem that many Spaniards now confront for the first time, as they compete with immigrants for scarce jobs.
Mary Westheimer, 57 and a business manager for her sculptor husband in Phoenix, says they compete to see who can "spoil" the other more.
All banks try to diversify, but the good ones also specialise, or at least try to be good in areas in which they compete.
As technology evolves, businesses are able to improve how they compete.
But what kind of team could they field, how could they compete with the Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves, and who would pay to see them?
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One that relies upon human capital, one that relies on the employees being better than those they compete against, not just good by some absolute standard.
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As fiercely as they compete with one another, males also do business with, open doors of opportunity for and pay more to members of their own tribe.
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Then again, given how well these firms and lawyers know each other and how fiercely they compete, I doubt the plaintiffs brought this lawsuit solely to maximize their profits.
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They say that when companies focus on the same industry, they compete more intensely and generate more innovation and growth as each tries to outperform the other.
Sadly, they have been herded into the short-term focus on quarter by quarter performance as they compete for ratings on managing other peoples money.
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