Growth is slow, competition fierce, margins narrow even during good times.
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But, as anyone on the "field-end" rather than the "fork-end" of the food supply chain will tell you, these days margins are tight and competition fierce.
And in NYC, where competition is fierce, carriers are in a bit of a price war.
The competition was fierce, and in the end, the parents edged out the students by one point.
They also have 50, 000 competing publishers and with competition this fierce everything that can give you an edge counts.
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But talent is expensive in Silicon Valley these days and competition is fierce.
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The results are yet to be revealed, but the competition was fierce and all the schools efforts were fantastic.
The price of entry is low, competition is fierce, and tastes are fickle.
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The Microsoft research center in Beijing is one of the most sought-after places there, and the competition is fierce.
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Ballet is a world where competition is fierce, and where the artistic director wields considerable influence in making or breaking careers.
Because so many players feel the same, the competition is fierce to make it into the Development League, despite the paltry money.
Among the wealthier volunteer militia in early 19th-century America, competition was fierce.
Designers operating solely in the contemporary market find the competition is fierce.
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Competition remains fierce, too: As Livermore pointed out, a laid-off consultant isn't like a factory that gets mothballed during a recession--he's still out there looking for business.
Competition was fierce as approximately 200 manufacturers fought for business.
Price competition is fierce as a result, and freight operators know that they can only get just so many yuan for hauling a ton of freight between, say, Beijing and Shanghai.
Restaurants regularly rise and fall in this competition-fierce arena.
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Many fear that it could make it even harder for university graduates to find jobs (last year 6.3m students graduated from Chinese universities, up from 1m in 1999, so competition is fierce).
It makes most of its money from advertising, its growth is slowing, its competition is fierce, its earnings weren't quite what analysts expected and the only people sure to get rich off this deal are the ones dumping shares.
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.
"It was fierce competition in those last four or five years of the work, " he said.
Against fierce competition, it was perhaps the silliest lesson yet drawn from America's tragedy.
This is why Dropbox is still the largest, despite fierce competition by all three.
But competition is still fierce, with firms like Brink's and Securitas also in the field.
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