If the traders sense a market is becoming too competitive, they may call for the outright sale of the plant.
But there are too many competitive threats these days to simply whistle by in graveyard fashion.
Later he moved on to advising countries about how they too could gain competitive advantage, and this led him to another field of interest, clustering the extent to which industries old and new (from diamond dealers to nanotechnologists) stay geographically close to each other, and the reasons for this.
Flintoff too, like any competitive sportsman, wants to be involved.
Whereas in previous decades these traits gave clusters advantages over the big industrial sprawl of competing western economies, these days the processes are too inefficient to be competitive in all but the highest-value segments.
Meanwhile, the amount of bond debt per building lot in many of these projects is too high to make them competitive against non-CDD developments.
Too little investment in a competitive infrastructure or an education system that works for our children and we risk falling behind countries that are making these investments right now.
And we get a competitive advantage, too.
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And the hopes that Europe's single currency would foster a newly competitive economy may be dashed too.
By keeping the dollar too high, and therefore blunting its competitive edge, the U.S. has long funded the world and indebted itself.
Too often, the primary concern of competitive media marketplaces is not the effect a story will have, but the attention it will generate.
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The other problem with Italy's small firms is that too many of them are in the wrong industries, relying for too long on cheap labour for their competitive advantage.
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Though the price of gold has crept up of late, the value of the rand has risen too, making South African exporters less competitive: since the beginning of 2003, the South African currency has risen by about 30% against the American dollar.
Already, regulators worry that there are too few auditors for the industry to be competitive.
To be competitive Dell has to be there too and so does Microsoft.
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Free-to-play too often goes against the very grain of competitive gameplay and fairness that makes games fun in the first place.
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But as Facebook builds its social-app platform and takes it onto mobile devices, it will pose more of a competitive threat to Apple and Amazon too.
The only victims were the broadcasters, who were set free too late to make use of their new competitive technologies and who now are limping into extinction.
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In the not-too-distant future, it will be a competitive DISadvantage to not have Open Notes.
Ultimately we believe BB10 is too late, and subs continue to shift to competitive devices.
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"We know only too well that we are once again in another competitive group, " said the Wales and British and Irish Lions lock.
Competitive sports were made much of, too: one pupil is now about to sign for West Ham football club and several are in Britain's gymnastic squad.
Too much room exists for fee evasion and a truly competitive payment landscape was not established.
If the unions slump too much, Germany may lose one of the few competitive edges it still has.
The company felt that the U.S. market was highly competitive and that margins on cell phones were too low.
Oracle said the DoJ's definition of the business software market was too narrow, and did not take account of emerging competitive threats from Microsoft and numerous smaller suppliers.
The programme supported joint initiatives between primary, secondary and specialist state schools designed to increase sporting opportunities for children, but ministers argued it had done too little to increase young people's involvement in competitive sports.
While nothing is yet resolved, and both companies are on very shaky financial footing, one hopes that some folks in Kansas will come to their senses before it is too late for both companies to heal and repair their competitive positions.
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The competitive spirit in other athletes might argue that they too exude these same qualities at the same level.
His critics say he's inexperienced in the wily arts of politics, and too obdurate and humourless to succeed in India's fiercely competitive political world.
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