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The hand-held computer maker Palm Inc. said it would deliver a new version of its operating system to computer makers in June or July as it vies with Microsoft for corporate customers.

It vies with Dacia for value-for-money.

It is also the financial capital of Europe, and it vies with New York to be the world's financial capital.

It vies with Chrome for the title of Fastest Windows Browser, and it's certainly the zippiest on the Mac.

And it vies with the New York Times for the title of the leading online English-language newspaper.

"Discretion" marked the career of Urrutia Lacroix; and it vies with hysteria in a deathbed monologue unbroken by paragraphs (those rhetorical pauses that allow thought to draw breath).

It vied with the Russians to dominate space.

In the Middle Ages it vied with Nantes as capital of the dukes of Brittany.

That made it the top issue everywhere except for two states along the Mexican border, Arizona and California, where it vied with illegal immigration as most important.

It hardly seems premature, 167 years after the master's death, to give the whole drama a whirl at last.Perhaps, too, Goethe's sense of irony would have been tickled by the spectacle of at least a score of German towns (including his birthplace of Frankfurt-am-Main, that "tiresome hole" as he once put it) vying with one another to put on the worthiest celebrations.

In 2009, it vied with films with historical themes for the Prix du film d'histoire at the Festival international du film d'histoire de Pessac.