The April issue of Outside magazine has an excellent article by Mike Kessler about the increasingly fierce competition in the waterproof, breathable fabrics market.

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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.

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The increased competitive pressures are also likely to oblige the region's economies to diversify away from commodities in which it anyway faces increasingly fierce competition from larger economies like China and Brazil and into value-added sectors.

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It's well established that the A6X chip in the fourth-generation iPad is about twice as fast as its predecessor in pure number crunching, but how about those reportedly doubled graphics amid some increasingly fierce competition?

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As global financial markets become increasingly integrated, and Latin American companies try to attract the attention of international investors, competition for capital is becoming increasingly fierce.

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Online and, increasingly, on mobile phones, there is fierce competition from music-streaming services such as Last.fm, Spotify and we7, which allow users to assemble their own playlists.

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