"competitive gap" is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to the difference between what a company or entity is doing and what its competitors are doing. For example, "The company must aim to reduce its competitive gap by investing in new technologies."
The NYSE thinks that European corporate-governance regulation is already tightening too, thus reducing the competitive gap.
Soon after, he and other senior engineers were putting the Cruze through 80-mile-per-hour comparison tests with the Civic to close the competitive gap.
With every piece of good news about the Big Three comes another reminder of how wide the competitive gap with Japan remains.
By the time Mr. Sherwood left the show in September 2006, the competitive gap with "Today" was wider than when he began.
It would not immediately bridge the gulf between, say, the German and Spanish economies; or even the growing competitive gap between the German and French economies.
For the integrity of women's international cricket the ICC, through investment, needs to close the competitive gap, through following the England model, helping create more bilateral cricket and robust domestic competitions.
Sarkozy stated that eurozone countries must prepare their national budgets in a common fashion, face stringent automatic penalties for breaking fiscal rules and undertake measures to narrow competitive gaps.
A surge from Anderson and Ellery Hollingsworth, 17, who finished third in halfpipe Saturday, could help fill a competitive generation gap.
"We increased the investment in our brands, with more advertising to build long-term brand equity and higher trade spending to impact short-term competitive price gaps at the shelf," said CEO Don Knauss Don Knauss.
"Despite improved North American volume performance in the second quarter, efforts to manage the competitive retail price gap that exists in many of our markets resulted in little or no price increase," said John R. Alm, the company's president, in a statement.
But the unexpectedly strong performance of Germany had a downside, because it highlighted the growing gap between competitive countries concentrated in Northern Europe and a group of sclerotic countries exemplified by Italy and now, it seems, France.
