This restriction, the thinking goes, was designed by FIFA to keep the Olympic tournament from being competition for the globally popular World Cup.
Jacques Barrot, a Frenchman and EU commissioner for regions, has even decided to spend two weeks at a language school in Britain to brush up his English, hoping (it is said) to boost his chances of being competition commissioner.
Presley was sheltered from the tumults of the 1960s, his main concern, it seems, being competition from younger stars: on bad days, he liked to say that his mouth felt "like Bob Dylan slept in it".In his cocoon, Presley could be a hillbilly Luftmensch, drifting from fad to fad.
"Any suggestion about there being competition for that date is entirely unfounded," he said.
E-commerce in Mexico seems to be quite a hot space right now, probably because its burgeoning nature means that, for the time being, competition is limited compared to maturer markets.
Shortly after its launch in 2006, Schlafly described the site as being competition for Wikipedia, saying "Wikipedia has gone the way of CBS News.
