New Jersey is a competitive state that was carried by Bill Clinton and now-senator Bob Torricelli (D) last November.
Since Iowa is a competitive state in November, each candidate has a reason to keep that promise at the national conventions this summer when the 2004 nomination rules will be set.
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Florida could be Romney's first win in a competitive state he wasn't born at, or maybe Huckabee could find enough evangelicals to become the frontrunner, or it could be the restart button for Rudy Giuliani, the one-time frontrunner who has been invisible of late except if on Saturday you happened to be in the Florida Everglades.
The Cricket Foundation runs the Chance to Shine initiative, which aims to encourage the playing of competitive cricket in state schools.
Changing modes of integration present new challenges for policy makers and executives--economic espionage, asymmetries in market access or competitive advantages for state-owned enterprises.
The EU's still-evolving foreign service has also forged close links with African and Asian political and trading blocs and plays a growing role in coordinating often-competitive member-state relations with Russia, Brazil and China.
And there are many services, like the provision of hamburgers, shoes, and iPads, that can be provided by competitive markets with minimal state involvement.
But more work, including development of some adjacent real estate, could go a long way toward keeping the 48-year-old ballpark competitive with all the state-of-the-art venues around the league.
Almost no one believes that the U.S. auto industry can be competitive in its current state, but some members of Congress--as well as automakers in the United Auto Workers (UAW) union--say that a bankruptcy would drag an already ailing U.S. economy into further depths.
The Affordable Care Act brings sweeping changes to the health insurance industry with most large plans like Wellpoint and their family of Blue Cross plans competing to provide quality and price-competitive benefit plans on state-regulated exchanges to offer benefits to millions of uninsured Americans when subsidies for individuals and small businesses kick in in 2014.
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Last year, for the first time in years, the Federal Communications Commission refused to state whether the mobile communications market was competitive in its annual report to Congress on the state of the cellular market.
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Scholarship funding has also allowed Wichita State to remain competitive against BCS conference Division I programs.
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The solution, Richman says, is to transform what was formerly a state monopoly into a competitive market.
He wants bigger tax cuts, less public spending, a ceiling on welfare costs, more labour flexibility, reform of pensions, greater decentralisation, and the sale of more state companies in the competitive sector.
Companies with factories outside the state would be at a competitive disadvantage, the court said.
"I don't think it is coincidental that the most competitive market for health insurance in the state is where Group Health Cooperative exists, " Oemichen said.
Although it was presented in the typical corporate fashion suggesting that Schmidt had been thinking about this for a long time, the simple truth was that Page was anxious about the state of Google and its competitive positioning in the next 5 years.
State schools do not play enough competitive sport at a high level, it has been warned.
Throw in 3 cents in federal and state subsidies and the electricity is competitive with the output from a new coal-fired plant.
The state turned to managed care, competitive bidding by health care providers, and comprehensive case management by private insurers for those on Medicaid.
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State-by-state polls show Bush is highly competitive in several states not carried by Republicans since his father won the presidency in 1988, including Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri, Oregon and Washington.
Under present and foreseeable circumstances, the Kozyrev proposal also would give an unfair competitive edge in international arms deals to Russian state-owned industries that are not subject to free enterprise forces.
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Clinton campaign Chairman Terry McAuliffe said earlier this week he sees North Carolina as "competitive, " but the campaign's state director, Ace Smith, already has lowered expectations, saying he sees no chance for a victory.
The MGM deal, which is contingent on a regulatory regime being established for online poker on either the federal or state level, helps define the competitive landscape as casino companies get ready to enter the online gambling business in the U.S. Boyd Gaming also announced on Monday that it has entered into an online poker alliance with Bwin.party.
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Assessing the width and breadth of the regulatory state is Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
"The hydrocarbons law needs work--it's not internationally competitive, " says a U.S. State Department expert on Latin American energy affairs.
Although Idaho is a Republican state, the 1st congressional district is competitive.
His campaign says he'll have staff in all 50 states, some of that symbolic, but even if he can't win a state, he can help make it competitive for Democrats down-ballot.
Get it right, and the state will remain business-friendly and globally competitive, with high employment and a rising standard of living.
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