My view is that any attempts to specify how competition will work instead have the effect of retarding it.

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Continued reform-retarding grain sales only frustrates the vital process of breaching the cycle of Russian dependency on Western agricultural subsidies.

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By retarding the information-technology industry, they argue, Telkom's monopoly makes South African banks, retailers and almost every other business less competitive.

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The model for the FCC's unnecessary, progress-retarding proposal is universal telephone service.

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Today he told BBC radio that the banks were still not coming clean about their liabilities and that their behavior was retarding growth.

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Straighten up and fly right: Overhaul that tax system, make the currency as good as gold once again, eliminate those growth-retarding regulations, and all will be well.

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One overhang retarding the housing recovery has been the high number of foreclosures, a detriment not only to the housing market but also to the apartment rental market.

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Unfortunately, unless the West follows the prescriptions for Polish aid laid out in the Center's analysis, it runs the risk in responding to current events in Poland of retarding, rather than advancing, such fundamental, systemic change there.

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Similarly and perhaps more so for the Southwest region where number one seeded Kansas is competing against 3 double-digit seeds, there may be a perception that they will run away with the regional, and as such, this lack of suspense might be retarding consumer demand and hence secondary ticket prices.

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