The bit of PWC forcibly hived off might well wither and die quite quickly, or simply specialise in auditing smaller companies (where there is less of a competition problem, in any case).
Nonetheless, tax competition remains a bigger problem for European countries than for the rest of the OECD.
But if the diminuitive republic went all the way, finding a venue to host the 2009 competition could prove a problem.
The problem of competition is compounded by very little brand recognition.
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But the main problem will be competition from big dogs Apple and Google, who have both launched their "TV" systems for online streaming.
He identified it as a major problem for banking competition and innovation in the banking industry - and proposed a new independent regulator.
Startups with fewer than 30 employees will be able to submit competition proposals describing their data problem and providing a sample of their data.
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Competition for crops is already a problem, and likely to get worse.
He said the problem was a lack of competition, which meant that many state-owned airports in Europe "still think they have a God-given right to charge" high prices for airlines to use their facilities.
Competition from multinational corporations is a bigger problem.
This reform will curb excessive risk-taking, reduce leverage, reform compensation, protect consumers, bring transparency and more competition to derivatives markets, address the problem of firms that are too big to fail, and make sure taxpayers do not bear the costs when firms do fail.
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They will not solve the real problem, which is lack of competition.
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If they once struggled to find the required ruthlessness to eliminate each other from a competition, it is clearly no longer a problem.
The problem with being reactive is that your competition is not confronted with that same dilemma and can march forward without hesitation.
In the Scottish Parliament, Labour, the Tories and Liberal Democrats said they would vote down minimum pricing, saying it might contravene European competition law and would fail to target certain "problem drinks".
The problem: the tablet market is saturated with competition, and dominated by Apple.
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The second problem is Karel Van Miert, the European competition commissioner, who has already intervened to block a number of broadcasting deals.
Bureaucrats at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently conjured a problem to justify a new assault on tax competition.
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The problem is the new drug will face fearsome competition from Merck itself, which plans to continue pushing Zocor for another two years, a move that could undercut sales of the combo pill.
Allan Asher, a former competition economist and now Energywatch's boss, highlights another problem: liberalisation may not have lowered prices as much as was hoped.
The problem for DPS with the first option is the intense competition in NCBs in North America.
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Michael Grisso of the Alliance for Rail Competition, a lobby group, says that monopoly power is the problem.
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Therefore, Congress should not inhibit innovation, stifle competition and hurt consumers by playing games rather than permanently solving this problem.
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Practical answers to this problem can be found with a well designed and curated competition that will unleash the innovators.
The problem with having one insurer is that it does not face competition to drive up standards.
During the three month competition, there were 73 teams that submitted solutions to the dark matter problem.
But that would solve only part of the problem, and anyway might fall victim to Europe's competition authorities.
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