Fine, but if today's high premiums were just an attempt to make up for past mistakes, there would be new entrants into the business.
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The government insurance monopoly will end and new Indian entrants into the business may be allowed to let foreign partners take minority stakes in their companies.
Partly responsible for the weakness is a Mexican court ruling that may pave the way for new entrants in the media business, says Christy.
Bing and other recent entrants in the general search business have enjoyed success precisely because they were able to obtain the inputs (in this case, data) necessary to develop competitive offerings.
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While this business clearly has a long tail, newer entrants appear to be having trouble coming up with regular deals to offer.
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The first is administrative, by which new entrants to the health-management business would apply techniques that have boosted productivity in service industries.
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Entrants to the consumer-finance business are soon expected to gain access to valuable data when Terranet, a new industry-run credit bureau, is set up next month (assuming blocking efforts by Takefuji, the industry leader, which claims that it might be illegal to disclose some data, fail).
This was true during the recession of 2000-01, and according to the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity (KIEA), which measures the new entrants to self-employment and business ownership (two measures of entrepreneurship), it has been true even through the Great Recession of 2008-09 and its aftermath.
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And this at a time when the credit-card business was already becoming more competitive, with new entrants offering rates as low as 5%.
First, it may signal that growth for their business is tapering off or may be under pressure from new entrants.
That would put it at odds with most countries, where mixing business and banking is considered toxic, but would mean new entrants with financial muscle (although the butchest conglomerate of them all, Reliance Industries, said on June 3rd that it would not seek a licence).
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Royal Mail insists that change is essential if the business is going to survive against tough competition from a growing number of entrants in the UK mail market.
Initially, this may make it even more successful, but there is going to come a time that its business context is going to change: new technologies, consumer preferences or foreign entrants emerge.
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If there was more margin in the business, he says, Internet radio would grow, and there would be more entrants.
Moreover, the new market entrants are largely based on streaming (not physical DVDs) due to the attractiveness of the business model.
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