While that is true enough, it ignores the point that it is Germany's efforts that have made it so competitive, rather than membership of the eurozone.
The union held competitive auditions for membership here, a process so competitive that even the great Stella Adler passed out before auditioning, Mr. Baker said before pointing out the portraits of great Yiddish writers, including Sholem Aleichem, who had a huge funeral in New York.
But for several years, Nebraska has lagged behind most others on the criteria for membership — primarily competitive research financing and the share of faculty in the National Academies, which issues policy reports and advice.
And though he is a stranger to many at the exchange, his argument that it needs to take the fight to its enemy's territory has stoked the competitive fires of the membership.
At the time, the commissioners feared that a dominant instant messaging operator like AOL had little reason to connect with smaller rivals because the size and exclusivity of its membership was a competitive advantage in attracting customers, offering the widest possible network.
So as a new semester begins and many of us gear up for another comp process--another competitive, months-long audition for membership to campus extracurricular organizations--I want us to all make one promise: Don't be a dick.
Regarding teachers' unions with a certain distaste, maintaining the belief that they exist to champion inadequacy, is now virtually required for membership in the affluent, competitive classes, no matter an affiliation on the right or left.
He contrasts the NFL's salary cap and fixed membership (enacted to maintain competitive balance) with the free-market Premier League.
But the new Rangers needed membership to play any competitive matches in Scotland and negotiations over inheriting the old club's licence were protracted.
The new Rangers, who will begin life in Division Three, needed membership to play any competitive matches and negotiations over inheriting the old club's licence were protracted.
