And now, for the first time in many years, powerful new competition is beginning to emerge in Microsoft's core markets.
And in an increasingly interconnected world, the diversity of our country is a powerful advantage in global competition.
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But competition is a powerful banner to raise on Capitol Hill, and GE has waved it vigorously through five successive spending cycles in which Congress ignored policymakers to fund the program.
American steel producers who oppose cheaper competition from abroad are powerful political lobbyists.
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Powerful though such arguments may be, resistance to competition is also strong.
Among the reasons why they are so high including government borrowing, taxes on credit, and lack of competition in banking the most powerful may be sheer inertia.
It has to be regarded as a powerful new force in a world where population growth and competition for resources have changed the economic and political ground rules for ever, apparently crippling the ability of old-style free-market economics to deliver growth.
Its academic brands have powerful global appeal. (See here.) But competition, or sometimes cooperation, is growing abroad.
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In the luxury grand tourer segment, Bentley's redesigned Flying Spur will face competition from Rolls-Royce, which is unveiling its ultra-powerful and rather butch-looking Wraith.
That means millions of workers are caught in a competition they can't win against machines that keep getting more powerful, cheaper and easier to use.
Doing it will not be easy, because the top chaebol remain powerful (the four biggest account for a third of domestic output) and because competition will accelerate bankruptcies and lay-offs, bringing large-scale unemployment to the country for the first time in 20 years.
So when Hudson won the competition to lead the U.S. business in 2009, she became the most powerful woman in the history of the U.S. defense sector.
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At that hearing, several large, powerful local liquor businesses testified that the market was already saturated and that they already had plenty of competition, thank you very much, and her application was denied.
But in fairness, the government has already shown a willingness to antagonise powerful businesses whether in a good cause, as with this week's new tougher rules on competition policy, or in a bad one, as with the extension of workplace regulation.
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