Over-unionised and unaccountable, America's school system needs the same sort of competition that makes its universities the envy of the world.
If this election founds a system of vibrant two-party competition, Japan will have undergone a monumental change, no matter who wins.
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Big Oil's manipulation of the system is preventing competition in the fuels marketplace, an activity that should be anathema in any free, competitive market.
One virtue of a private system is that competition allows choice and experimentation.
The thing is, when we actually examine the UK health care system we find that a dose of competition does it good.
But I advised companies on both sides of the Littoral Combat System competition, and I saw how desperate they were to avoid being underbid.
His pupils, mostly in their 20s or 30s, are taught a straightforward system of bidding and play, and competition, though fierce, is deliberately friendly.
Although it has integrated the product into its Outlook.com web email service, it will continue to offer Skype as a separate installable application on its new system, avoiding the risk of anti-competition complaints.
The promoter of the competition is Turner Broadcasting System Europe Limited, 16 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7HS ("Turner").
That's the incentive of a system that allows increased choice and competition.
And speaking of state regulation, letting in foreign competition also provides an opportunity to correct one of the great flaws in the current system, which is that many states prevent competition even from American-owned companies who are from other states.
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But the challenge has always lain with the first half of Lincoln's phrase--that is, how to stoke that genius through a system that both rewards the inventor with a temporary business monopoly and protects the competition that lies at the heart of the free-market system.
The new colleges may shake things up a bit, but there is an endemic lack of competition in Australia's educational system.
In the PC operating system market, the 1980s were a period of intense competition and rapid innovation, followed by the 1990s when Windows became utterly dominant and the pace of innovation slowed.
Mr. Salem is highly critical of his fellow Egyptians for what he sees as their inability to move past the short-term goals of unseating Hosni Mubarak and opening the political system to competition.
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Government funding of our current school system leaves little room for innovation or competition by private schools.
Instead of pouring money into a broken system, we launched a competition that we call Race to the Top.
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The competition is asking for prototypes of a badge system.
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Imagine, too, some pretty bad news for Groupon, which faces a whole new kind of competition from the recently-launched Google Offers discount system.
The German system is geared towards preventing the influence of a rich benefactor from skewing the competition, but some argue that it will only serve to perpetuate the status quo.
Gensler has long pressed for more centralized trading of the products to promote competition and lower the risk to the system.
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It would require a separate naming system alongside the existing one, which could cause complications, although a bit of competition might be good.
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In the Reiss system, athletes wear wristbands with personalized messages intended to motivate them during the heat of competition.
This is especially true in the province's capital of Edmonton, which is noted for its innovative system stressing choice, accountability and competition.
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However, the jammer currently being used was designed in the era of vacuum tubes, so a competition has been launched to develop a system with more power, precision and versatility.
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That's why instead of just pouring money into a system that's not working, we launched a competition called Race to the Top.
Lu Ang, a commentator at CCTV's tennis and golf channel, credits the record of Chinese players to the revamp of China's sports system, which now encourages more individual initiative and more international competition.
Further delays were feared when EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes asked for changes to the European edition of the operating system to better open it up to rival software providers.
In a recent email, he said he supports all antidoping efforts, but wonders whether amateurs will simply learn to game the system, as many pros have done, particularly by easing off performance-enhancing drugs ahead of competition.
He outlined his plans for "a health insurance exchange" that would allow Americans to choose between private plans and a public option that will "inject competition into the health care market... force waste out of the system and keep the insurance companies honest".
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