Nokia has faced heightened competition in the midprice segment from rivals like Samsung Electronics of South Korea, which offer clamshell phones with extras like color cameras and high-resolution graphics.
"Unemployment in Europe remains high, the population is aging, our social systems are adapting with difficulty, our economies are facing heightened competition.
Complaining weedily about facing "heightened competition", the US invaders weirdly and perhaps tellingly declared that they would "say a little less about country by country results than in the past, to avoid inadvertently helping our competitors".
The contract also bans the hospitals from providing clerkships to other Caribbean medical schools — a critical provision to St . Georges, which has faced heightened competition in recent years, particularly from Ross University on the island of Dominica, part of DeVry Inc., a publicly traded educational company, since 2003.
This new-style job anxiety does not cut as deeply as the pain felt all across what was called the Rust Belt in the 1980's, when waves of blue-collar workers lost jobs as one American industry after another retooled to face heightened foreign competition.
Moreover, technology consulting firms are faced with heightened competition from big companies like I.B.M. and Electronic Data Systems, which are eager to take over operations for the growing number of companies that want to outsource their technology-intensive functions to cut costs.
Faculty members protected by tenure kept their jobs, but mathematicians who had not yet attained it found themselves facing sharply heightened competition, which produced an "unprecedented 12percentt unemployment rate for new American mathematics PhDs" and "a dramatic decrease in the probability of obtaining a position in research universities," the article says.
Its results have weakened as the company faces significant declines in traffic, heightened competition from its rival, Best Buy, and others and a weakened brand position.
Mr. Jobs's leave is certain to cause anxiety with investors and consumers, because of the heightened competition the company faces.
But as the United States and other rich nations hit by the global financial crisis face their own daunting challenges, there is heightened competition for foreign assistance.
