After skyrocketing last year, premium prices in many places have stabilized, as insurers adjust overpriced policies and more competitors enter, or return, to the market.
Second, hunting is not a "sport," since any true sport involves two or more competitors, either individuals or teams, similarly equipped, playing by the same rules, let the best individual or team win.
Europe is already happy to use Google, and without serious innovative ideas, Chirac's project could be consigned to history's dustbin by more experienced competitors or more audacious upstarts.
A dead heat, according to Merriam-Webster, is "a contest in which two or more competitors earn the same score or finish at the same time".
In a Full Metal Mayhem match, two or more competitors fight to either gain a pinfall, submission, or climb a ladder to retrieve an envelope or a championship belt in no disqualification rules.
H.P. is showing off servers that use parts from five or more competitors.
Heath had a dozen or more competitors in its heyday, the mid-1960's, but it is the last large company to leave the kit business.
And as economist John Kwoka shows, in the 2000s, merger enforcement actions by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) dropped to essentially zero in industries with five or more competitors.
Harm to one or more competitors, however severe, is not condemned by the Sherman Act in the absence of harm to the competitive process and thereby harm to consumers.
Competition results from shared use of limited resources resulting in decreased performance of one or more competitors (Holechek 1980; Vavra et al. 1989; Miller 2002).
