When he turned 17, his brother Toufic showed him an announcement about a signing competition at state-run Lebanon Radio.
That takes moral confidence, and the nerve not to ditch principles at the first sign of competition from less scrupulous rivals, such as China.The Americans have a lot on their plate just now.
Manuel Almunia, whose position asNo 1 has come under the spotlight, captained the side at Liverpool, but the Spaniard admits he would consider his future were the club to sign experienced competition such as Fulham's Mark Schwarzer or possibly Shay Given of Manchester City.
There are other signs that competition can keep openness alive.
Already there are signs that competition might be slow to materialize, banking analysts said.
In the finish corral at the Freeskiing Open, Peter Olenick, a competitor known for his double flips, signed his competition bib and gave it to my son.
And there, radicals are offering people an alternative in fundamentalist Islam.There are new signs of competition for the top job in Russia between Mr Medvedev and Mr Putin (see article).
Many complex phenomena, from trait selection in biological systems to hierarchy formation in social and economic entities, show signs of competition and heterogeneous performance in the temporal evolution of their components, which may eventually lead to stratified structures such as the worldwide wealth distribution.
Moreover, a co-culture of two populations with compromised fitness did not show signs of competition, indicating that this system may be employed in the future to assess if certain fitness deficits are stronger than others (e.g. autophagy vs. slow proliferation).
But it is a clear sign that the competition is heating up.
The first sign was analysts' competition to be the first to predict a $1,000 share price.
