In "Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations New York University Pressss, $29.95), Professor Mires recounts the intense competition among 248 localities vying for the honor.
About the only one of Cohen's statements that can't be challenged is that combining Comcast and Time Warner won't directly reduce the level of competition in many localities.
Finally, considerable prior work on this system has documented interspecific competition at these localities [ 39, 49, 51], has ruled out alternative explanations for the observed patterns [ 44], and has provided evidence of a link between morphological variation and aggressive behavior in this system [ 44].
The other bizarre event is that the family are offered the chance to compete in a wacky TV competition set up for local farmers to win prizes for the best produce - and all in hokey traditional "Etruscan" costume of the locality.
Less competition would mean less choice for states and localities looking to buy and service voting machines — and even less incentive for industry to produce first-rate products.
Competition and violence figured more prominently in select localities, as the bow-and-arrow was adopted rapidly across the continent.
The potential for a larger population differentiation in southern localities suggest that a similar apparent competition is not likely in these localities, and the parasitism rates in these localities are also typically much lower (<10% vs >70%).
States increasingly enter into competition to attract or keep mobile capital in the locality.
Asked by a reporter if legislators had complained to him about the vicious competition between states for businesses, and the billions of dollars localities have conceded in tax revenue to entice their presence, he answered, "I really think that's a states-rights issue..
Competition within a species is often reduced by wholesale migration to new localities.
