Prior spectrum auctions show us that this dynamic drives the firms to continue to compete where customers want them to compete: innovation, service and price.
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This has led to renewed talk of "currency wars" - where countries compete to devalue their currencies to help boost exports.
"To finally make the next step and go to the Elite 8 and now to be going into another game to try to compete to go to the Final Four is definitely back to where Georgia basketball needs to be, trying to compete for a national championship, " James said.
It will also give Microsoft some headway in the enterprise where it plans to compete with Cisco and LifeSize.
If anything, the site may be a little too steeped in Silicon Valley, where people love to compete over who is smarter.
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In 1995, he took over Professional Bull Riders (PBR), which is an international professional bull riding organization where cowboys compete to see who can stay on the bull for eight seconds.
Contador, given a retrospective two-year ban which ends after this year's Tour de France, is set to make his return at the Tour of Spain where Andy Schleck hopes to compete.
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So no matter what it is that they want to do with their particular discipline, we try and give them the skills where they are able to compete effectively or if they just want to you know, be better human beings.
That could make it difficult for the chain to differentiate itself from other online rivals in the already crowded space in China, where it would have to compete with the likes of global names Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and local giants like Jingdong .
Baseball players, race car drivers, skiers and lawyers all experience the same loss of a competitive edge when their physical functions decline to where they can no longer compete at the level necessary to compete and win at their peak.
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They are far from volumes of Samsung and Apple, but that is not where Nokia is trying to compete now.
In this sense, London has become to finance what Wimbledon is to tennis: a place where the best international players come to compete.
Most Burmese still run their errands in traditional open air markets, where vendors compete shoulder to shoulder, and find their profits destroyed by near perfect competition.
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Rather than pull them entirely, the network has opted to simply move them around (again) on the schedule. 30 Rock will be bumped up to Thursdays at 8:30, where it will no longer need to compete against ratings juggernaut Grey's Anatomy on Walt Disney-owned ABC.
Rather than pull them entirely, the network has opted to simply move them around (again) on the schedule. 30 Rock will be bumped up to Thursdays at 8:30, where it will no longer need to compete against ratings juggernaut Grey's Anatomy on Walt Disney (nyse: DIS - news - people )-owned ABC.
Next week, the primary cavalcade will roll on to Michigan, where only the Republican candidates will compete, to be followed by votes in Nevada and South Carolina.
Numerous versions of the ad all pointed to letsdothis.com, where people could compete in a series of small games to earn badges and prizes, including a Sonic giveaway.
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The traditional enterprise and client compute markets will continue to demand high capacity storage solutions and will be best served by hard disk drives, where manufacturers compete on the ability to deliver cost effective, reliable and energy efficient mass storage devices.
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To enable its receivables to grow, and to compete in an industry where consolidation has created huge players, it made sense to tie itself to a bank with deep pockets.
O'Brien is planning yet another row with the Brits, only this time in the U.S., where he'd like to compete with Virgin Mobilein youth-oriented mobile service.
Such subsidies, and a range of other trade barriers, keep poor countries out of markets where they could reasonably hope to compete, despite their many disadvantages.
In countries such as Morocco, where the Islamists are permitted to compete but never to win, voters are losing faith in the ability of the PJD to deliver even the mild reforms it proposes, such as more transparent and accountable government.
Flexon was among those passed over, but he agreed to leave his job as finance chief at NRG to run Foster Wheeler's U.S. division, where he was to learn the ropes and compete for the top job.
For instance, because an entrepreneur can choose where to locate a business, states and cities now must compete to offer favorable tax and regulatory laws.
She moved to the Swiss alpine resort of Zermatt in 2009 where she is now in training and hopes to compete in her first event by April.
Rich countries are particularly protectionist in many of the sectors where developing countries are best able to compete, such as agriculture, textiles and clothing.
It's often been said that wrestling is the national sport of Iran, where it doesn't have to compete with the likes of baseball, American football and hockey.
However, cutting the cost of each handset to the point where Apple can compete on price, and still make money on a cheaper handset could be a challenge.
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