• College football is probably slightly worse than college basketball simply because the current BCS setup vastly limits the abilities of non power-conference schools to compete for the national championship where as March Madness affords smaller schools a much better opportunity to claim a national title.

    FORBES: How Does Parity Compare Among Major U.S. Sports Leagues?

  • But if there is a strong large-scale push in general transportation, it might make the power industry fearful of having to compete against motorists for natural-gas supplies and thus more cautious about making a major commitment themselves.

    WSJ: Daniel Yergin on the Shale Gas Revolution: Stepping on the Gas

  • The global market may be shifting toward a different axis of power, but the modern American employee is evolving to compete in this new world, regardless of where its center lies.

    FORBES: U.S. Is On Cloud 9 When It Comes To Competition

  • Unable to compete with the purchasing power and supply chain prowess of national chains, the mom and pop shop seemed destined for the dust heap.

    FORBES: Connect

  • The parliamentary elections, considered the more perilous as the factions are expected to compete for power in earnest then, will be put off until next spring.

    ECONOMIST: Afghanistan: A little good news | The

  • With the prospect of such levels of investments flowing into the UK's energy sector, it seems clear that the nuclear industry will have to compete with the oil and gas industry, with the wind power sector and with renewable fuels companies, not just to attract electricity customers, but also to attract skilled staff such as engineers and scientists.

    BBC: Hitachi's nuclear deal still faces hurdles

  • The parties compete for power by offering solutions to problems that people care about, isn't that the theory?

    CNN: Both parties abandon the jobless

  • Those Sunni Arab groups who had already decided to compete for power at the polls will probably still try to do so, particularly if the worst of the fighting ends fast.

    ECONOMIST: Iraq

  • Without the star power the longtime co-anchor lends the chat-fest, the second-place morning show could struggle to compete with NBC's top-rated Today when it comes to access and exclusive interviews.

    FORBES: Media

  • Just as advances in technology have the power to make our lives better, they also force us to compete with other nations like never before.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Delivers Commencement Address at Miami Dade College | The White House

  • Analysts saw the talks as part of a consolidation trend, as HP, IBM and Cisco Systems jostle for control of corporate data centers and compete to supply the high-end computers that power complex corporate transactions and networks.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The solar industry relies on Government subsidies to compete with conventional sources of power such as coal and natural gas fired plants and decline in support can significantly impact the business of module manufacturers such as First Solar so we will keep an eye on these areas as well.

    FORBES: First Solar Q2 Results May Fire Up Run To $144

  • The relentless pursuit of technical improvements has brought solar and wind power prices down enough to compete with conventional energy-generation technologies in many markets.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Solar energy proponents want the price of solar electricity to fall so that it could better compete with cheaper power from coal and natural gas power plants.

    FORBES: Solar Startup SoloPower Undergoes Restructuring, Cuts Workforce

  • That's the thinking behind Michael Heseltine's radical proposals for devolving power from Whitehall, so our great cities can get the strong leadership they need to compete on the world stage.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | In full: Cameron speech

  • As with all alternatives, nuclear power development should be held to very high safety standards and ability to compete in the marketplace solely on merit.

    FORBES: Aftershocks: Nuclear Energy Fallout From Japan

  • Power-sector reforms allowed smaller European utilities to compete more vigorously, buying LNG on the spot market at a price sometimes as low as half that of long-term contracts from Russia.

    ECONOMIST: Shale gas should make the world a cleaner, safer place

  • IEA's boffins have analysed how much of a boost nuclear power could get from a carbon tax, and the answer is quite a lot possibly enough to compete with coal.

    ECONOMIST: A renaissance that may not come

  • We need to know how to harness the power of the Internet and these new technologies for creating and sharing knowledge that will prepare students with the skills to compete in the 21st century.

    FORBES: John Chambers

  • The government has also begun to fear that freer prices mean higher prices, and that new power stations will be unable to compete with old hydro-electric plants, whose initial costs have long been written off.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil's energy crisis

  • But should he proceed with regulations to control pollution from existing coal-fired power plants, the single largest source of carbon pollution, those regulations probably will contribute to shuttering facilities already struggling to compete with cheap natural gas.

    NPR: PROMISES, PROMISES: Climate Change

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