Without competition, the owners of a single shop could get complacent, letting service and quality deteriorate.
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This allows seedlings from other species, not susceptible to the pathogens, to germinate without competition.
But although privatisation will undoubtedly help, privatisation without competition or regulation brings dangers of its own.
"There are so many customers out there that the vast majority are being grabbed without competition, " says McLaughlin.
The firm will continue to sell in other parts of the world without competition from generic drugs until 2016.
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And without competition, the price of insurance goes up and quality goes down.
The re-write has focussed on two key areas - under what circumstances contracts can be handed out without competition and to what extent anti-competitive practices are allowed.
Under the law, companies that develop such a drug may sell it without competition for seven years, in addition to often receiving quicker "fast track" regulatory review.
"I hope the tournament will help me to get the feeling I need to add week after week after a long period without competition ... results are the least important thing right now, " said Nadal, who last week launched a smartphone app that teaches tennis skills.
And there are plenty of ways to compensate the afflicted without blocking competition.
As a result, contracts are often times awarded before the government has figured out exactly what it needs and without full competition.
Without any competition, the newly re-named franchise sold only 223, 000 copies for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 in the U.S., according to The NPD Group.
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Sony Computer Entertainment has sold 1.2 million PlayStation Vita portable gaming devices since launch last year, but those numbers could have been much higher without increased competition from smartphones and tablets.
Without any competition from the Olympics (baseball was voted out as an Olympic sanctioned sport by the International Olympic Committee in 2005), the World Baseball Classic (WBC) is undoubtedly the premier international baseball tournament.
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"With an absence of Syrian productions, Egyptian productions have found themselves standing tall without any competition, which resulted in an increase in both quantity and quality, " said Mahmud Dallal, a lecturer at Cairo University's theatre studies department.
The dominant tobacco companies, especially Philip Morris (now Altria) got a virtual cartel that allowed them to immediately raise cigarette prices without facing competition from smaller companies, since the AGs wrote into the pact clauses that required new companies to pay into the settlement even though they had nothing to do with the alleged behavior behind the lawsuits.
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The smaller South Asian nations cannot survive the global competition without belonging to a regional grouping.
Wenger would never have chosen to go through the latter stages of the competition without so many first-choice defenders.
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"It is going to affect competition without a doubt, but it's certainly going to make it more convenient, " Coughlin said.
Malaysia can and should serve as the model of a truly multi-ethnic democracy that fosters political competition without fear of unrest.
Seaman and O'Connor were allowed to progress through to the next round of the competition without having to skate this week.
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Without such price competition, the U.S. health care system faces bleak prospects.
Overall, the 10 most-expensive airports for air travel include six "fortress" hubs dominated by one airline and four small cities without much fare competition.
Combined with the Gewerbesteuer, a court-protected local trade tax, this has meant that politicians are limited in their ability to respond to tax competition without losing revenue.
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No surprise, then, that even without regulation, competition is robust.
Without paying customers or competition to harry them, public-sector workforces are often producer-oriented and conservative.
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Colleagues vie with each other for preferment, yet must collaborate closely to fend off competition from without.
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