Spain, Portugal, Greece and even Ireland, that paradigm of European success, face similar challenges.But if Italy is suffering a decline in its competitive position, why is Germany not booming?
Admiral was the biggest faller in the leading index, down 44p at £12.15 after the insurer saw third quarter turnover fall 3% as premiums declined in a competitive car insurance market.
Ms. Amanpour's tenure on "This Week" coincided with a decline in ABC's competitive position on Sunday mornings.
Addition of model impurities to refined LA has varying effects: organic acids, sugars, or inorganic salts have little effect on conversion; alanine, a model amino acid, results in a strong but reversible decline in conversion via competitive adsorption between alanine and LA on the Ru surface.
Some people who decline to take part in competitive sport – often because they were put off it for life by experiences at school – look to swimming not for exercise, but for a kind of meditation or release.
Kantar Media/CMAG, which tracks political advertising, predicts that $2 billion will be spent on television ads in this year's congressional elections.This, together with a decline in the number of competitive seats in the House of Representatives, gives too much sway to dedicated partisans on either side.
We've seen a 56percentt decline in the number of competitive congressional seats between 1997 and 2017".
In the US, McDonald's blamed the sales decline in February on "ongoing aggressive competitive activity".
Because competition magnifies differences in competitive ability as described above, this means that the costs of resistance will be highest early in the spread process, and will decline as resistant strains are increasingly likely to be competing with strains with similar competitive abilities.
The growing evidence of heterospecific attraction suggests an additional mechanism to explain concomitant population declines in species within competitive communities [50].
