Ministers have bought the argument that such expansion is essential for competitiveness; the industry has successfully sold them the line that other countries are expanding their airports so the UK has to as well.
Michael C. Ruettgers, the chairman of EMC, said the quarter had reinforced EMC's view that information was being created so rapidly in the networked economy and was so essential to competitiveness that demand for intelligent data storage systems was bound to remain strong.
A sustainable supply chain is essential for competitiveness with regard to price, quality, dependability, flexibility and responsiveness (Markley and Davis 2007).
Students, academic and other action groups, and universities alike see the government's plans as fragmented, and ask for the reforms to be drawn up in the context of a new economy that will "value research and innovation as essential for competitiveness".
A MIT Sloan Management Study on sustainability further revealed that two-thirds of the 4.700 respondents agree that sustainability is essential to competitiveness and nearly three quarters agree that sustainability is a permanent part of their agenda and that their commitment will further increase (Kiron et al. 2012).
"A rapid shift to low carbon growth is essential for security, competitiveness and prosperity, not an intolerable risk to competitiveness, jobs and growth.
"The energy sector is essential for European competitiveness," Ms. Kroes said.
Accordingly, on the other side of the ledger, cost containment becomes essential to maintain competitiveness: that means personnel!
They have proclaimed the spread of high-speed, or broadband, connections to be integral to the industry's growth, essential to American competitiveness and indispensable to consumers.
Yesterday Mr Darling, a former transport secretary, described Crossrail as "the largest transport project since the Channel Tunnel and essential for the competitiveness of not just the City of London but for the whole country".
