Farmers who sell, say, organic or free-range foods, cannot hope to compete based on price.
People can understand what makes for a good shoe or mobile phone, and companies compete based on quality and price.
"MVPDs and competitors should be able to differentiate themselves and compete based on the experience they offer users, including the quality of the user interface".
Let governments start to compete based on which ones can create the most equitable economic systems, rather than which ones can cut taxes the most.
Apple's ability to compete, based on engineering, design, and marketing, is the model for American technology companies in an era of globalization.
The whole point of Nuji is that consumers can discover high quality products they wouldn't see elsewhere, so it's a great opportunity for retailers to compete based on their products instead of their marketing budgets.
Yet, the IOC's approach allows Russian athletes to compete based on no consistent standard – while some may have a clean recent test, others may come with no screening at all.
"It is a shame that Genzyme has chosen to compete based on a frivolous lawsuit rather than on the merits of their products," Dr. Richard F. Selden, TKT's chief executive, said in a statement.
"Generally speaking," Mr. Griffis said, "we support a business environment that is open, transparent, and fair so that all companies are able to compete based on product performance, not country of origin".
It forces companies to compete "based not on product quality and services, but on accounting gymnastics," said Paul Egerman, former chairman and chief executive of eScription, a medical transcription service in Boston.
