China also does ignore intellectual-property laws, has a poor record of worker-safety standards and environmental protection, and, in many other ways, has improved its ability to compete in the global economy at the expense of other nations.
For example, the Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5 genome contains at least 8 large DNA segments that have evolved due to genetic exchanges with other bacteria [ 23]; these adaptations improved its ability to compete and survive in the dynamic and microbiologically complex rhizosphere.
Some said the European wine industry had stymied a chance to improve its ability to compete with the market-friendly products of the New World.
Topics like programming and design, advocates argue, are more likely to engage a generation that imbibed basic skills as toddlers, and to improve Western ability to compete with Asian nations that often give far stronger grounding in such subjects.
American's acquisition of T.W.A.'s domestic and international routes would let American "expand its operations and improve its ability to compete with other airlines and alliances in international aviation markets," the Transportation Department said.
Italy may follow suit, but only if the former monopoly obtains significant regulatory concessions that improve its ability to compete domestically, according to analysts and people with knowledge of Telecom Italia's deliberations.
To the Editor: In addition to the points you raise, I'd add the fact that time wasted teaching the "nonsense" of creationism is time that could be spent teaching real science in order to improve our ability to compete globally.
Mr Sutcliffe's comments call to mind the recent promise of Gordon Brown, the prime minister, to provide "British jobs for British workers": there is, it seems, greater political desire to protect citizens from immigrant labour than to improve their ability to compete with it.
The Taiwanese mobile maker is banking on bulking out its mid-tier to improve its ability to compete with the extensive device portfolio of Android behemoth Samsung.
Second, taming our nation's astronomical health care bill would further improve our ability to compete in foreign markets.
