The rules of the competition state: "The winner will be the individual, team or organisation that achieves the greatest volume of electrical output over the set minimum hurdle of 100 GWh over a continuous two year period, using only the power of the sea".
The single market and the EU's competition and state-aid rules are under attack as national governments look for ways to protect jobs.
As 2011 began, competition from state-subsidized Chinese companies continued to drive down the cost of conventional photovoltaic panels, which plunged some 40% in 2010 alone.
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But local businesses fret over competition from state-funded Chinese rivals.
One Havana paladar was closed for entertaining too many diplomats and creating too much competition for nearby state restaurants.
After the client cuts that list down to 10 or 15, more legal work is done, checking for competition internationally and state by state.
The French have been among the most reluctant to allow competition against their state-owned monopoly, EDF, even though the company has been taking advantage of liberalisation in other countries to enter their markets.
Talackova, a 23-year-old Vancouver resident, also called on Donald Trump, who owns the Miss Universe competition, to state "in plain words" whether she will be able to compete and go forward to the Miss Universe final if she wins her country's contest.
In the other Florida case, Justice Antonin Scalia, the court's most vocal champion of a strict textual reading of the constitution, argued that Congress was wrong to regard damage to an ongoing business from the false advertising or unfair competition of a state agency as an unlawful deprivation of property barred by the 14th amendment.
Supporters say Common Core prepares students for college and for global competition better than earlier state standards.
The news comes at a time when federal regulators are examining the state of competition wholesale energy markets.
This is not to say that market forces and a largely hands-off Internet policy have delivered the ideal state of competition.
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The UK's rural rollout of fast broadband has been given a boost as the EU competition commissioner approved the state-funded scheme.
The U.K. government and financial regulators have been trying to promote greater competition in banking since state bailouts in 2008-09 resulted in fewer lenders.
Later this week the House Judiciary Committee takes the first step in that direction as it holds a hearing on the state of competition on the Internet, touching specifically on the Microsoft-Yahoo!
In aggregate all the corporations are in a constant state of competition with one another and with governments as well as with the yogurt stands, and rental properties and innumerable other small businesses in America.
Tuesday the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation will haul in, among others, the chairman of the agency that oversees railroad mergers, the head of the Norfolk Southern railroad and a top official from the Government Accountability to discuss the state of competition in the freight rail industry.
The reorganisation is the fourth since China first opened its telecoms industry to limited, state-orchestrated competition.
When the UK's competition watchdog last examined the state of the UK grocery market, it said that no one player should have a market share of more than 25%.
The naysayers have misdiagnosed the state of broadband competition.
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And four years ago, we started Race to the Top - a competition that convinced almost every state to develop smarter curricula and higher standards, all for about 1% of what we spend on education each year.
And four years ago, we started Race to the Top -- a competition that convinced almost every state to develop smarter curricula and higher standards, all for about 1 percent of what we spend on education each year.
The European Competition Commission, led by state-aid-busting "Nickel" Neelie Kroes, would not comment on the recent bailouts by the Fed of American International Group, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and any future ones that may come around for Wall Street firms.
That rule affords to any importing firm all the same privileges and advantages that the state grants to local competition.
When the crisis first struck, the commission's competition regulators relaxed their rules on state aid to allow the bail-out of banks and to help firms that suddenly faced a dearth of credit.
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.
Unfair competition is prohibited under common law, state statutes, and the U.S. Trademark Act.
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But in the 1990s countries across Europe began liberalising their economies and exposing once-protected state-owned companies to competition.
Today men and women of all shapes and colors flock to George Washington University's annual Bhangra Blowout competition near the U.S. State Department headquarters in Washington, D.
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