Indeed, as WaMu retrenches, its two main competitors, Countrywide and Wells Fargo, are looking to expand aggressively.

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Our specific examples today are Lenovo, the Chinese PC manufacturer, and its two main competitors, HP and Dell.

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The French news agency Agence France Presse (AFP), has had to extensively develop its English language coverage over the past few years in order to keep up with its two main competitors, the American Associated Press and the British Reuters.

BBC: Chirac pushes global French TV

WorldCom and Sprint are the Number 2 and Number 3 US long-distance telephone companies respectively, and the US government is worried that the two companies already compete in the same areas and that US telecoms industry would be left with only two main competitors.

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Ahead of the GOP primary, a Mason-Dixon poll showed the senator falling behind Akin and the two other main GOP primary competitors in hypothetical match ups among registered Missouri voters.

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Sohu does not match up well against its host of competitors, especially its two main portal rivals, Sina.com and NetEase.

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Borders Group, one of the two main brick-and-mortar bookstore competitors to online-only retailer Amazon , recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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