Cursed with slender profit margins and price-cutting competition from Wal-Mart, supermarkets have been anything but super for years.

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Price-cutting competition in telecoms will come more from new providers such as call-back services, which allow callers in Japan to take advantage of cheaper rates elsewhere.

ECONOMIST: Deregulation in Japan

At the World Championship Cutting Competition, held last month in a suburban Atlanta parking lot, Gary Bond, a 48-year-old maintenance worker who named his knife "Bruiser, " was among the strongest contenders to knock out Mr. Phillips.

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