The competition, which is now in its seventh year, is currently the only heavyweight robot fighting competition in North America.
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The benefits of breaking the stranglehold of a union that has turned wages into something approaching a fixed cost are innumerable for a firm that is now fighting the competition with one hand tied behind its back.
Analysts say the entry into the market by BT represents a serious challenge, despite Sky's success in fighting off previous competition from the likes of ITV Digital, Setanta and ESPN.
Can they keep expanding, while figuring out how to turn a profit, all the while fighting off a wide range of competition for small-business ad dollars?
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American Express may be launching a quixotic charge at the Justice Department by fighting this case, but clearly it thinks competition means bribing consumers with goodies, not trying to make peace with merchants by reducing the discounts it demands from them.
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We were fighting not getting paid, when most of our competition would not.
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Take, for instance, Joe Ellenberger, a former college wrestler aspiring to join the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the often brutal mixed martial arts competition.
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Poland's strength is in the same low- to medium-technology goods, such as furniture, shoes and processed foods, as those produced in struggling Greece, Portugal and Italy, putting Poland in direct competition with countries the euro zone is fighting to save.
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Independent pork-fighting groups -- or conservatives concerned with the integrity of competition in government procurement -- should re-evaluate their stance based on this new information.
With growth in the soda segment flattening out, in part due to government antiobesity campaigns (soda sales have been banned in schools), the growth and competition are in water, where market leader Danone is fighting it out with Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
"We are currently seeing healthy competition in the savings market, with banks and building societies fighting for funds, " he said.
This is why there is no international standard on tax evasion or tax competition along the lines of international standards on bank regulation or fighting financial crime.
It had been fighting a 2009 ruling by the commission that it must sell Stansted because of the lack of competition between London airports.
It may be that he has a tightly-drafted American-style contract which enforces a period of gardening leave if he leaves to work for another broadcaster - S4C would argue that they're hardly a competition for the History Channel, but it's likely the lawyers may well be fighting it out as we speak.
There's massive competition now for spots in the team, you're talking about world-class players fighting for position.
The ruling is sure to strike fear in the hearts of big pharma executives worldwide who are fighting to prolong the patents on their drugs--and their revenue--in the face of increasing generic competition.
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