Retailers, scared they will be put out of business, took to the streets in protest.
It won't be, any more than it was put out of business 25 years ago by cheap Japanese steel.
Small firms such as newsagents, pubs and off-licences being put out of business.
Family firms would be put out of business by the move, old connections severed, and a whole district would die.
Bognor Regis Town Council, which owns the Picturedrome, said it would be put out of business by a new multiplex cinema.
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The music industry has undertaken a sizable campaign over several years to see illegal sites and services put out of business.
The move has been strongly opposed by tens of thousands of small businesses and corner shops who fear they would be put out of business.
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Clearly, if we impose a high carbon tax right now then we put out of business a lot of organisations and factories that emit CO2.
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This has given hope to gold smugglers in Dubai, who were put out of business when India began freeing gold imports in the early 1990s.
Some smaller guitar makers, which have built reputations and businesses on those shapes, worry they could be put out of business if Fender gets its way.
He notes that when it comes to fleecing investors, Wall Street has certainly not been put out of business by the financial reform bill that passed recently.
The biggest issue for Adolph Sax right after he invented the horn was that his saxophone threatened to put out of business all sorts of other instrument makers.
And when he won his contract to have the saxophones placed in the French military ensembles he obviously was going to put out of business a lot of people.
After sentencing, PDP director Roger Green said he and his colleagues had been "betrayed" and nearly put out of business by someone considered to be a "trusted colleague and personal friend".
Such a fund should also be available to help those in the tourist industry who could be put out of business, through no fault of their own, as a result of foot-and-mouth.
Once again, the story hinges on a couple who know each other for real only in the final minute in this case, Joe Fox, who owns a chain of large bookstores, and Kathleen Kelly, who runs one small bookstore and finds herself put out of business.
It seems odd to pay a worker compensation because his firm has succumbed to competition from imports, but give him nothing if it has been put out of business by a company up the road, or failed to adapt to changes in technology or in customers' tastes.
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"As a small business, this kind of an opportunity can put you out of business, " say Ms. Krepak, who runs the retail and wholesale business from her home in Orlando, Fla.
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Ofcom had received more than 100 complaints that a transmission had been interfering with the commercial broadcaster LBC and the regulator was out to "put them out of business".
But over the next two years, the troubled rollout of the 747 almost put Boeing out of business.
John Plenty at Radstock and Midsomer Norton's Chamber of Commerce said it would put traders out of business.
"Microsoft had a bad reputation among Internet elitists mostly because of the browser wars" in 2000 when Microsoft put Netscape out of business, he says.
So far, they have restricted the development of computer trading partly because the locals fear that electronic trading will put them out of business.
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In the commercial marketplace of ideas, branding is a proven path to success, and the failure to brand can put one out of business.
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Gas drilling company Lenape Resources, based in western New York, had sued the Livingston County town of Avon and the state Department of Environmental Conservation over the town's moratorium on drilling, saying the action threatened to put it out of business after it had operated in the town for decades.
Computerized trading, he says now, put him out of business about two years ago.
ECNs, which argued that SuperMontage was designed explicitly to put them out of business.
The company responded with massive layoffs, which devastated Seattle's economy and put Sullivan out of business.
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One example is Internet portal Sina, which launched a blog that put Bokee out of business.
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