In a "word cloud" used by the newspaper to represent graphically the frequency of various answers to the open-ended questions, "competitive" was largest, with "diverse" next, and "fun," "stressful" and "friendly" close behind.
The three questions about risk preferences (questions 41 44) were inspired by the DOSPERT scale (Blais 2006), while the questions about competitive appetite (question 44) and anxiety (question 45) were our own.
No one in the communications business would question the competitive fire of, say, Edward E. Whitacre Jr., chairman of SBC, and Joseph P. Nacchio, chairman of Qwest, two former AT&T executives who now run Bell companies.
"You have to ask the question: What competitive advantage can Motorola have that thousands of other TV makers don't have?" asked analyst Todd Bernier Todd Bernier with Morningstar in Chicago.
More specifically, those researchers showed that answering standard-format multiple-choice questions containing competitive incorrect alternatives (i.e., plausible answers) enhanced participants' ability to answer questions based on such related but nontested information on a later cued-recall test.
Galbraith's major works include American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power (1951), in which he questioned the competitive ideal in industrial organization.
Yet as supporters of the two leading candidates gathered their forces, pollsters and many party leaders questioned how competitive the race here would be.
Galbraith's major works included American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power (1951), in which he questioned the competitive ideal in industrial organization.
Those payments potentially raise new questions about competitive balance in college sports, Title IX rules relating to women's sports, and athletic departments' bottom lines.
Changing a rule in midseason would be highly unusual for the N.F.L. and would raise questions about competitive fairness because some teams have already been penalized under the existing rule.
