Overall, we are encouraged by the 24% year-over-year growth in revenues that the Windows division posted and think that Microsoft will be extremely competitive against Google and Apple going forward.

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They tend to be extremely competitive and that works its way into their fitness regimens as well.

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The parent of America's fourth-largest wireless operator, T-Mobile USA, cited "the extremely competitive environment in Germany and the recent foreign exchange rates development" as reasons for altering its outlook.

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The online travel industry is extremely competitive, with players like Priceline, Travelocity, and Orbitz competing to offer the best deals in airline and hotel bookings.

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Open allocation seems too insane to work until you consider how terribly closed allocation works: unnecessary turnover, bad behavior resulting from a need for visibility amid a competitive transfer market, warring departments and teams, and extremely low motivation.

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The Nike ad may be offensive to those who don't quite understand sports culture, or work in extremely competitive environments such as sales, or Wall Street, and even politics.

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Group J also looks extremely competitive, with Sevilla, Paris Saint Germain, Borussia Dortmund and Karpaty Lviv all competing for the top two places.

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Although the mix of smartphones within the mobile phone market is growing, the smartphone landscape is extremely competitive with players like Apple, Motorola, Nokia and Google vying for leadership.

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In a competitive labor market (and, contrary to what many non-academics believe, the market for faculty is extremely competitive), tenure means that institutions do not have to pay faculty as much in the form of cash or benefits.

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