In 1894, Alexander Graham Bell's patent expired, and there was a brief but fruitful period of competition during which a great deal of the country was wired — often, in rural areas, by local coöperatives.
Whether it is a product or service, points or monetary incentives, offer your customers something more fruitful than your competition who is merely jacking up prices and then giving out coupons.
While many advocates believe that the competition has been fruitful, providing families with options and encouraging the school system to improve, others argue that the rapid growth of charter schools has undermined efforts to improve neighborhood schools and left parents scrambling to win citywide enrollment lotteries.
Some degree of competition may be fruitful, even in medicine.
TO: Choosing a different form of competition will be much more fruitful, I assure you.
Margrethe Vestager, the European Union's competition commissioner, has hope for fruitful results from the United Nation's climate change conference in Paris at the end of the year.
Mutko is hopeful the second week of competition will bring Russia a more fruitful Olympic harvest.
He initially thought their competition would be easily managed and fruitful, but both teams refused to be second to the other and Spector ultimately had to merge the teams and choose a single designer.
On the Fruitful Bough and the Rosebloom, cameras follow brothers working for, and in competition with, each other.
Global competition for a product with little demand may also not be particularly fruitful.
Fruitful scholarship followed.
