How can new companies survive and grow if they have no advantage over their competitors?

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Call writers should have no advantage over call buyers.

WSJ: Upside: Options for Nervous Investors

Ferguson's next challenge awaits in the Champions League final, and I have no doubts they have a psychological advantage over Chelsea by winning the title.

BBC: Alan Hansen's column

Professor Colin Baker from the University of Bangor, an expert on bi-lingual education, says those working in the field have no doubt that bi-lingual children have an advantage over their monolingual peers.

BBC: Bi-lingual schools thrive in nations

But his points become valid if we rein it in to the reality that jazz has become a truly international music, and that the world has become a level playing field where players born in New York or New Orleans no longer have an inherent advantage over those from Warsaw or Tbilisi.

WSJ: The Jazz Scene: Intercontinental Artistic Missions

In Russia, for example, large supermarkets, which have no choice but to obey the tax inspectors, have a 5% cost advantage over small shops.

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Reassuring dad that you have no intention of taking over what he can do for himself, nor taking advantage of him in any way can help.

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Lampard should have doubled Chelsea's advantage when he shot wildly over from close range, but made no mistake when presented with another opportunity after 16 minutes.

BBC: Chelsea win 5-4 on agg