With "all the options for people to spend their vacation dollars," says Charlie Metzger, executive vice president and director for client services at the McCann Erickson office, "it is, no question, competitive" — not to mention "a challenge" to draw attention to a single attraction.
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.
In addition to questions like competitive balance in the major leagues and the lack of revenue sharing among teams, baseball faces a more fundamental issue: is it out of step with the hamster-treadmill pace of contemporary American life?
These companies have their regulatory challenges, leadership questions or competitive issues, but they all seem undeservedly cheap.
In Model 2 in Table 1, when SWB is represented by the life satisfaction question, we predict migration probabilities similar to the model using the Cantril question, indicating that these two questions are competitive measures of SWB.
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.
He is simultaneously owner of the BC Lions, raising questions of competitive integrity.
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.
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.
