The razor thin competition in Ohio will emphasise a narrative the Romney campaign has been trying to quell for weeks, that, for all his money and organisational superiority, he is still having difficulty putting this nomination race away and dispatching his rivals and particularly Rick Santorum.
With funds thin, competition thick and its co-founder in the clink, it may take a Super Fund-like undertaking to clean up Pixelon.
Instead, Mr. Freudenstein said B Sky B planned to focus on Britain, taking advantage of the thinning competition to drive down the prices it pays for programming, which have run up in recent years as new pay TV providers entered the market.
Stealing Harvard, meanwhile, offers thin comedic competition from the white boys.
Its homegrown pipeline of new drugs is rather thin, and competition to fill these gaps with drugs from biotech firms is fierce.
But most of the decline was in non-food items, such as TVs and other electronics, where profit margins are wafer thin and competition from Amazon especially tough.
The most clear-cut antitrust cases usually come to light in geographically limited markets, said Jim Mutchnik, a former Justice Department prosecutor, and in sectors where margins are thin and competition fierce.
But only lately have falling salaries, rising subsidies and a thinning of competition turned the financial equation in favor of the investor.
On a per tree basis, a heavy thinning will reduce competition more than a lighter thinning and hence the growth response is expected to increase as the thinning intensity increases (Pukkala et al. 2002).
In the gray, cloudy, "Portrait of Juan de Pareja, Assistant to Velázquez" (1960), which is full of delicate rivulets of thin paint, the competition may be Yves Tanguy, whose refined Surrealism was influenced by Dalí.
The music streaming space affords very thin margins, and competition is fierce.
