By licensing its technology to others, it assured buyers of a competitive supply.
It is also the only major country that continues to maintain a health-care system with substantial elements of competitive supply, pricing freedom, patient choice, and diversity in approaching complex and uncertain medical problems.
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In short: the Avenger Controller, a customization of the XBox and PS3 controllers designed for disabled gamers but with applications in competitive online play, encountered supply issues which delayed delivery over the Christmas period.
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Ongoing supply disruptions, as well as the fragile state of global economy, call for a prompt increase in supply on a competitive basis that will allow refiners to boost throughputs and meet rising seasonal demand.
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"We are building a leadership position in the conversion of diesel, gasoline and LPG fuels to LNG in Europe, developing a competitive alternative to LNG terminal supply with portable, small-scale LNG fueling solutions for long-haul trucking and small remote energy centers, " said Davor Grcevich, Gasfin managing director.
The auctioneer explains that higher prices would drive the sector to increase supply and offer competitive prices for high-grade cuts such as those used for a fillet mignon or a New York strip, at the same time giving domestic consumers good availability of lower-quality, but still superb, meat.
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Ministers are being careful to talk about diversity of supply rather than a competitive market.
Since ETFs are hot commodities with few supply limitations, a competitive marketplace naturally drives down costs to the benefit of consumers.
Which leads to one to wonder: Should the supply of beer be competitive or should we tolerate a little market power along with reduced levels of consumption?
However, this quickly brings us to the second reason to support video, which is a supply-driven value-add and competitive differentiator.
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Pakistani officials say their country can supply consumer goods and car components at competitive prices, but punishing tariffs make them far too expensive in India.
At the heart of the debate to date about the FS-X agreement have been various claims and counter-claims concerning the effect of the F-16 technology and manufacturing know-how the United States will supply Japan on the latter's competitive industrial position.
Now the local government, irritated with Tepco over post-2011 supply hiccups, wants to put the power out to competitive bid.
Our economic relationship with China, characterized by transnational supply chains and disaggregated production sharing, is more collaborative than competitive.
Deep inside the organization someone has to oversee the supply chain, the marketing, the launch program, the competitive positioning against Apple.
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The transformation of Triumph from a smaller player in the fragmented aeronautics supply chain to a primary supplier gives the company an important competitive advantage we think will grow over time.
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The effects of the biofuel product could extend to competitive companies that produce biofuels, as well as to the energy companies that supply gasoline in Europe like BP, Eni and Gazprom.
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Direct efforts to improve the supply of credit to companies - including by making the banking sector more competitive - might well fall into this category.
But to do it right you have to first tackle the problems with the supply side, whether those are medical cartels, regional insurance monopolies, anti-competitive practices, or gross protectionism of pharmaceuticals.
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While based in the competitive California market, where nine major avocado handlers vie for business, it has a diversified supply with fruits also coming from Mexico, Chile, Peru, New Zealand and the Dominican Republic.
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Just as the railway mania carried on after the competitive landscape had changed for the worse, so these new cable companies kept on investing even as the supply ballooned.
Businesses need to determine the processes where they can drive strategic differentiation and then begin that automation process, Hurd said, adding that those slices of competitive advantage can differ from company to company and industry to industry: sometimes Customer Experience, sometimes procurement, sometimes supply chain or something else.
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