By all accounts Thomas Weisel is a hypercompetitive guy who has been successful at every undertaking.

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India's smartphone market is hypercompetitive with Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. taking a lion's share of the sales.

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Ford raised wages to reduce turnover, which was running at 300% per year during the hypercompetitive infancy of the auto industry.

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Microsoft likes to say its hypercompetitive business practices hurt rivals, not consumers.

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Ford says reverting to familiar brands makes sense in today's hypercompetitive market, where the explosion of models makes it difficult to build awareness for new nameplates.

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After starting out ten years ago, Bharti has faced down fearsome rivals, including the Reliance and Tata groups and Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa, to become the largest mobile-phone operator in India's hypercompetitive wireless market.

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Mr. HANFT: We have only ourselves to blame for creating, yeah, the hypercompetitive environment that now, in many ways, is an outgrowth of that kind of Spock-like obsession with creating a perfect world for our children.

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Reward points, discounts, free shipping and gifts--it's all there for the taking, as the big players in the hypercompetitive retail industry fight to outdo each other to buy off the loyalty of customers blessed with more choices than ever.

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Out: hypercompetitive areas like cancer research.

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" However, he said, "the global smartphone industry has now become hypercompetitive, so any differentiation on specs or services for the S 4 is likely to last only a few months or a year at best before it is benchmarked by rivals.

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