Whether the competition will result in lower premiums, however, remains an open question.
The Simpson-Bowles Part D rebates would undermine competition, result in fewer choices of drugs for the sickest seniors, and wind up costing taxpayers and seniors more over the long run.
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Second, unproductive competition may result.
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The data plans, coupled with the fact that no Sprint subscribers currently have iPhones unlike the competition, should result in healthy pre-orders for the company.
We boomers, on the other hand, have become more individual, more deep, more multi-faceted, and far broader than our Gen-X or -Y competition as a result of our decades-long fall through time and space.
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India are also involved in the triangular competition and the result meant that all three teams have won one match, although the Sri Lankans moved to the top of the table having gained a bonus point because of the speed of their victory.
As a result, competition between exchanges now turns increasingly on the strength of their technology.
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It is said that the requirement for America's Amtrak to become free of operating subsidy by early 2004 is largely the result of competition from low-cost airlines.
But it has been losing market share since then as a result of competition from satellite pay-TV providers and telecom operators as well as budding online platforms like Netflix and Google TV.
Within a year, most of the sales of the branded medicine are gone as a result of this competition.
It turns out that patent expiration does not quickly result in real competition.
Carriers will face increased competition, and as a result the consumer will win.
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This could result in stiffer competition, especially if demand for IT products and services weakens due to slower economic activity.
Analysts at Credit Suisse reckon that banks in Ireland may be especially profitable in coming years because competition has withered as a result of the crisis.
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Price competition is fierce as a result, and freight operators know that they can only get just so many yuan for hauling a ton of freight between, say, Beijing and Shanghai.
Just as in India, which saw a similar opening at the same time, companies have improved productivity as a result of foreign competition, and some big firms have expanded successfully abroad.
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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Rohit Arora, chief executive of Biz2Credit, a small-business lending broker based in New York, says he believes the interest rates and other related costs may come down as a result of increased competition among lenders.
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According to his analysis, the traditional Times franchise had been suffering steady erosion as a result of heightened media competition and the encroachment of the internet.
What is already happening as a result of this policy competition is that the South from Texas to Florida is rising as the new industrial base, and economic powerhouse, of the nation.
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The chemicals industry has historically operated under high levels of market competition and regulatory scrutiny with the result that chemicals companies typically have for many years maintained a sharp focus on operational risk.
As a result, the foreign competition often operates at a cost advantage in the United States and in other markets that enables it to sell profitably at lower prices than U.S. firms can charge.
If this assimilation continues, we will lose the brilliance and innovative flair of the Hispanic population, and the US economy will suffer as a result, in the competition with the rest of the world.
As a result of all of this competition and new technologies, DNA sequencing has gotten cheaper with incredible speed.
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Competition among plans will ensure the Goldilocks result that premiums are neither too high nor too low for each category of insured.
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The first is the stickiness of inflation in the euro area as a result of a lack of competition, especially in services.
The result: a national cocktail competition to showcase the talented women in the spirits industry, while also raising money for breast cancer charities.
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As we have done successfully in diverse areas from space flight to oil cleanup, an incentivized competition could drive privately funded research and result in innovative, orthogonal solutions.
The Government's expectation is that only one new city will be created as a result of the diamond jubilee competition and, similarly, that only one existing city will be granted a lord mayoralty or lord provostship.
Increasing availability of finance is creating more competition among lenders, and as a result interest rates have fallen in the past year by about one percentage point in Europe's most popular markets, the U.K. and Germany, Mr. Daubeney said.
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