If you are up against private brand competition, have you formulated a long-term program for researching and strengthening your market position??

If private brand competition hasn't been felt in your product field as yet, have you thought how you will cope with it if and when it does appear??

If competition beats you to it, this exciting new product era can have real headaches in store.

If this happens to all industries however, everyone would be worse off than if they had been subject to the rigours of market competition.

If two or more jumpers tie for first place, the tie-breakers are: 1 ) The fewest misses at the height at which the tie occurred ; and 2 ) The fewest misses throughout the competition.

If some existing technology or company whose benefits are largely based on network effects starts to lose market share against a challenger such as a disruptive technology or open standards based competition, the benefits of network effects will reduce for the incumbent, and increase for the challenger.

If the tied vaulters have the same number of misses at the last height cleared, the tie is broken by the total number of misses in the competition.

If a tie in the other places still exists, a jump-off is not normally conducted, unless the competition is a qualifying meet, and the tie exists in the final qualifying spot.

If these tournament rounds were held in one competition, up to 512 contestants would participate in the tournament, which is difficult to believe for a single contest.

If the opposite holds true, then it becomes more costly for landowners to have guards for the slaves than to employ paid workers who can only demand low wages due to the amount of competition.

Faced with growing competition from Marmite, from 1928 to 1935 the product was renamed as " Parwill " to make use of the advertising slogan " Marmite but Parwill ", a convoluted pun on the new name and that of its competitor ; " If Ma might ... then Pa will.

If an athlete and sled are not within contact of one another the athlete is disqualified from further competition.

If the rider is a member of the police or military, they are permitted to wear their respective uniform during competition.

In 1963, the 10-minute halt was introduced, to occur after the completion of phases A, B, and C. It took place in a marked out area ( the 10-minute box ), where the horse was checked by two judges and one veterinary official who would make sure the horse was fit to continue onto phase D. If the horse was unfit, the panel would pull it from the competition.

If a rider wishes to stay within normal requirements for higher-level competition, breeches should be white, but beige or another conservative light color is permissible.

If more bidders attend the auction, a higher price might ultimately be achieved because of heightened competition from bidders.

If the public sector company is making money and selling their product for half of the price of the private sector companies, the private sector companies won't be able to simultaneously gouge to that degree and keep their customers: the competition keeps them in line.

Quinn decided to move If to a monthly schedule with the March 1954 issue, perhaps because the competition had increased readership.

* If the practice of the industry causes more complicated pricing, which is hard for the consumer to understand ( such as risk-based pricing, hidden taxes and fees in the wireless industry, negotiable pricing ), this can cause competition based on price to be meaningless ( because it would be too complicated to explain to the customer in a short advertisement ).

If any member of a team has an undergraduate degree, the team competes in the Division I competition, and is only eligible for the open championship ( i. e. the overall championship ).

If a wholesale price can be established at a node on the transmission grid and the electricity quantities at that node can be reconciled, competition for retail customers within the distribution system beyond the node is possible.

If the Commission is satisfied that competition will continue to keep prices at this level, or lower, the regulation will expire in mid 2012.

If the Opening ceremony and athletics competition will be held in different stadiums, the flame will be required to move there.

If these fall out during competition the gyoji ( or referee ) will throw them from the ring at the first opportunity.

If a club refuses to play or is ineligible to play then they are replaced by the second finalist from the competition they qualified through.

If you were a man '' --

If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.

If someone were to drop a match in here, this place would go up like a haystack ''.

If the other pilots were worried, they did not show it.

If it were the enemy, tactically his position was correct.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.

If there were only darkness, all would be clear.

If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;

If these people were denied a voice ( do they have a moral right to a voice??

If we were creating a wholly new society, we could insist that our social, political, economic and philosophic institutions foster rather than hamper man ; ;

If living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.

If the Stearns were not there, grace would be omitted.

If anything, the conservative Democrats were more opposed to Hearst than the Republicans.

If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.

If the new Soviet series has followed the general pattern of previous Russian tests, the shots were roughly half fission and half fusion, meaning a fission yield of 30 to 40 megatons thus far.

If the Hessian troops sent here willy-nilly by the Hessian Government to fight for England in the 1770's were mercenaries, what shall we call the UN troops sent to the Congo willy-nilly by their governments to fight for the United Nations??

If the UN troops are not mercenaries then the Hessians were not mercenaries either.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.