And once a drug goes generic, the firm that created the medicine must deal with fierce competition from other manufacturers.
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Both have been contending with fierce competition from privately held Bloomberg.
Decrease in activity coupled with fierce competition from investors targeting distressed inventory means the possibility of picking up a decent fixer-upper at a discounted price from the bank has greatly narrowed.
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It is now one of Hong Kong's most revered culinary traditions and is considered a staple meal, with fierce competition among top restaurants and hotels to win the loyalty of the families who make it their Sunday ritual.
Those looking for the deal of the century are not going to get the property with such fierce competition.
Yet, these markets tend to be quite regionalized with fierce local competition, and there is no set methodology to win.
But with fierce global competition, you must deeply question the traditions of the past and focus instead on reinventing the future.
His battles have ranged from the famed lifelong rivalry with fellow Aussie and one-time partner Kerry Packer to fierce competition with The New York Times, Time Warner Cable and most recently Google (in an interview last year with Sky News Australia, he threatened to remove stories from the search engine so readers would pay for content).
So imagine a business in the midst of fierce competition with production deadlines, new initiatives, etc.
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They also have 50, 000 competing publishers and with competition this fierce everything that can give you an edge counts.
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It is not being helped by fierce competition with another county 100km (60 miles) away, Guangrao, which in recent years has been laying a rival claim as Sun Tzu's birthplace.
Goldman Sachs currently uses products from both Reuters and its rival Bloomberg, with whom it is engaged in fierce competition.
We try to cover as many games as possible but competition with other sports is fierce.
They are finding themselves in fierce competition, though, with the wave of Chinese PE firms and RMB denominated funds that have been formed in recent years.
As a benign example of how transatlantic teams can stimulate competition in high-tech weapons making, defence analysts cite the fierce competition to supply Britain with an air-to-ground surveillance system.
But competition is still fierce, with firms like Brink's and Securitas also in the field.
The retailer has been struggling to cope with declining sales in the face of increasingly fierce competition from supermarkets and online retailers such as Amazon and iTunes.
Personal computer maker Hewlett-Packard may be trying to branch out into software and services, but it still has to contend with falling PC prices, weak demand and fierce competition in the legacy business that still dominates its profits and revenues.
On another battle front, Apple, Google and Facebook will square off and no one is really sure the slumbering giant in Redmond will remain dormant or finally gain some real traction with their mobile OS. Competition will be fierce and some iconic brands like Blackberry and Nokia could all but disappear.
Like many legacy carriers, PAL struggles to cope with a bloated payroll, high fuel costs and fierce competition from budget airlines.
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The hottest market is India, where the combination of a staid state broadcaster with a free-to-air monopoly and fierce competition among cable and satellite companies has boosted pay-TV.
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Competition for new jobs is fierce, with 50% of the world's population under 30.
In 2008, faced with a sagging U.S. economy and fierce international competition from South American rose growers, Pinchbeck found himself priced out of the market.
The competition in the apparel industry is incredibly fierce with many top competitors yearning for their share of the market.
Chalk it up to fierce competition and customers' continued refusals to part with cash very easily, even as they loosen the purse strings a bit.
In the back row there is fierce competition and you wouldn't argue too much with the whole of the Irish trio going, along with Wales' Martyn Williams and Ryan Jones, and Tom Croft from England.
Its homegrown pipeline of new drugs is rather thin, and competition to fill these gaps with drugs from biotech firms is fierce.
Competition in the on-demand space is already fierce, with free and subscription services from Netflix, Lovefilm, Virgin Media, BT Vision, YouView, BBC iPlayer and BSkyB already fighting for customers.
Though it faced fierce competition over the decades, NBC was formidable in the 1990s, with Thursdays declared a "must-see" night of television.
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