He was a conscientious, if not particularly likeable, army officer, and a graduate of Polytechnique, the highly competitive French engineering school.

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America simply cannot afford to extend and compound the CWC's damage to its cutting-edge industries in the highly competitive biotech and genetic-engineering fields.

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One unfortunate trend with the growth of higher education has been an increasing emphasis on exam and grades oriented learning, fueled by the proliferation of competitive entrance exams for science, engineering, medicine, law, etc. and tutorial centres who compete to prepare the students for these exams.

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Can Japanese engineering, design, and manufacturing quality produce a competitive product?

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The company said it will put more people in frontline engineering and production, and fewer in support roles, in order to be more competitive.

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America's export boom is likely to be led by firms that are already global in scale and by sectors in which America has a clear competitive advantage: sophisticated, knowledge-intensive capital goods like microprocessors, and high-end services like engineering, oil-production services and even (witness KPF) architecture.

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