"The president embarked on his first foreign trip with a clear-eyed outlook that the world is not a 'global community' but an arena where nations, nongovernmental actors and businesses engage and compete for advantage," McMaster and Cohn wrote.
"You're wondering if I'm lonely," wrote Adrienne Rich in that beautiful collection of poems of hers, Diving into the Wreck, "OK then, yes, I'm lonely," and for sure this choice of mine has put me somewhere else that's far away from the competitive bustle of profession and career, where men and women compete for advantage..
Lacking the resources to compete for global advantage across the full range of policy components that shape the knowledge production process in this field, developmental states must necessarily be selective, choosing their points of policy intervention in the light of their strengths and weaknesses and consequently how they seek to position themselves in the global game.
Training programs give unions, which also compete for workers, an advantage in organizing the workplace, especially when union membership, as a percentage of the work force, declined to 13.5percentt of nonfarm workers last year, the lowest point in 60 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Coming on the heels of a visit by much of Pakistan's civilian and military leadership, including Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, the Indians' trip was a reminder of how much Pakistan and India are competing for geopolitical advantage in Afghanistan, and it underscored President Hamid Karzai's efforts to court the two countries.
Fifth, it was a gene expressed in an organism competing for reproductive advantage.
According to previous studies (Dorning and Cipollini 2006; Awodoyin and Ogunyemi 2008), S. obtusifolia germinates early in the beginning of wet season and matures early in the mid-wet season, leading to take an advantage to compete for light, moisture, essential nutrients, and open space over other herbaceous species and consequently suppress the growth of other native herbaceous species.
Furthermore, ASEAN and SAFTA countries possess comparable comparative advantages and compete for labor-intensive FDI by granting similar kinds of incentives and treatments.
To explain this persistence, Haidt invokes an evolutionary hypothesis: We compete for social status, and the key advantage in this struggle is the ability to influence others.
And although Lithuania will be missing its leading scorer from that tournament, Toronto Raptors forward Linas Kleiza, it will have homecourt advantage and could still compete for the title.
Traders who compete for information that confers a larger information advantage are worse off than those who compete in an environment in which information is more widely available.
