Meanwhile, Southern New England Telephone, a subsidiary of SBC Communications Inc., said higher prices were essential to spur competition in the market for residential telephone services.
The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which covers Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, held that walking is essential to tournament competition and denied Olinger a cart for the qualifying events in the United States Open.
But he left out the most crucial reform of all: public financing of elections, which is essential to encouraging competition for legislative offices and reducing the influence of big money on the state's politics.
The government option has become one of the most contentious elements of legislation taking shape in Congress, with critics saying it is a step toward a federal takeover of health care and supporters arguing that it is essential to create competition with private companies.
In sport, the aim is not to eliminate the weakest rival, since no team can do without the others and, in general, there is the feeling that a certain balance is essential to the competition.
They claim a government plan for all is essential to promoting competition among private health insurers, but others point to evidence and experience that shows such subsidized "public options" mainly shift large numbers of individuals previously covered by private insurance to government coverage.
A public option is essential to creating competition in the health insurance market.
He has sought to open up the provision of essential services to competition, colluded with Peter Mandelson to browbeat poor countries into accepting ruinous free trade agreements, championed genetically modified foods and worked to allow thousands of chemicals on to the markets without health or safety tests.
Independent regulators will be essential to fostering real competition across the economy.
