To stand a chance of re-election, he must therefore do whatever he can to frame the vote less as a referendum on his performance in office and more as a choice between competing visions for the future.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

In that summer 35 years ago the National Basketball Association, tired of competing with the ABA for players and wary of future litigation, decided to merge with the upstart league.

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In the summer of 1976, the National Basketball Association, tired of competing with the ABA for talent and wary of future litigation, decided to merge with the upstart league, which, at the time, had seven franchises.

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So I've been doing everything I can to make sure that the United States is competing aggressively for the jobs and the markets of the future.

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We worked very hard to achieve that critical component of improving our fiscal path in a way that ensured we still could be making the investments that we think are critical for our country, competing for the high-wage jobs of the future.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

When it comes to competing with other nations for the jobs and industries of the future, we are all on the same team -- the American team.

WHITEHOUSE: Out-Educating the Competition

EU, as discussed recently in competing speeches by the French and German leaders, that seems likely to absorb Europe's interest for the foreseeable future.

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But what is insufficiently appreciated is that society in Northern Ireland is increasingly becoming mafia like, the competing rival paramilitary organisations are there and the release of prisoners has reinvigorated those organisations and is ill omen for the future.

BBC: Northern Ireland

Such is the importance of software on mobile devices these days, that for the Lumia 800 and future Windows devices from Nokia to regain some semblance of dominance, other competing device makers like HTC and Samsung need to start shifting more phones that run on Windows.

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