They are on a mini run of 10 points from 12 in the league and the talk now is of a Uefa Cup place, most probably through one of the cup competitions, magnifying considerably the importance of tomorrow night's visit to Upton Park in a quarter-final being replayed because West Ham fielded an ineligible player the first time round.
Under current conditions, however, there is absolutely no reason to believe that there are offsetting gains — on the contrary, the losses to import competition are magnified through multiplier effects.
As we wrote in our post about Joost's prospects as a white label video community provider, there is already plenty of competition, including Brightcove, Magnify, and Ooyala.
Competition from other countries magnified the significant productivity and quality performance problems that most American firms faced in the 1980s.
This is because the formation of an RTA, which promotes intra-regional increases in agricultural trade flows, would eventually magnify market competition levels.
But in New York City, with its severe shortage of space and financing for artists, competition and infighting are often magnified.
Regardless, if reduced larval competition facilitated growth this should magnify any size-dependent mortality, so the weak changes in body size in both females and males further diminishes any support for the idea that smaller individuals were more likely to die.
Among seed plants, the intensity of pollen competition is thought to have become greatly magnified in angiosperms (Mulcahy 1979).
Businesses that embrace innovative technology and invest in it wisely will have a better chance of being a step ahead of the competition, and their likelihood of success will be magnified.
Besides magnifying differences, the politics of enmity makes competition viscerally personal.
