Spurred by keen competition in our industrial system, and still further increases in the funds devoted to industrial research, plant and equipment expenditures by business and industry should rise during the decade.

The textiles sector experienced an approximate 17 % drop in exports due in part to the appreciation of the Dominican peso against the dollar, Asian competition following expiration of the quotas of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement, and a government-mandated increase in salaries, which should have occurred in 2005 but was postponed to January 2006.

They noted, however, that their data included a wide range of products, and the degree of competition in each market varied significantly, and offer that further research on this issue should be conducted to determine whether these findings remain the same when purchasing the same product for both small and high volumes.

However, the elite Delta Force and other special operations units have fielded the HK416 in combat, and Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn has called for a " free and open competition " to determine whether the army should buy the HK416 or continue to purchase more M4 carbines.

Above all, if some public goods are provided by the state, he believed that they should not be a legal monopoly where private competition is prohibited ; for example, he wrote:

Despite approval from the FA, the Football League determined that the club should not enter the competition, since it had not qualified.

Many religious believers believe that religious pluralism should entail not competition but cooperation, and argue that societal and theological change is necessary to overcome religious differences between different religions, and denominational conflicts within the same religion.

Junior, school, and masters competitions often use different weights of shots, typically below the weights of those used in open competitions ; the individual rules for each competition should be consulted in order to determine the correct weights to be used.

That is, assuming that some kind of competition law is inevitable, critics will argue as to what its central policy should be, and whether it is accomplishing its goal.

Movements that are given a coefficient are generally considered to be particularly important to the horse's progression in training, and should be competently executed prior to moving up to the next level of 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.

He stated that society should be based on cooperation and not class conflict and competition.

In creating the AEC, Congress declared that atomic energy should be employed not only in the form of nuclear weapons for the nation's defense, but also to promote world peace, improve the public welfare and strengthen free competition in private enterprise.

The Enquiry into the NSW transport industry, including rail / road competition, ( 1978 – 80 ) under Commissioner Gavan McDonell, found that this centre was inefficient, should be moved, and the land used for other public purposes.

They should be rewarded for trying hard and for improving their skills rather than punished or criticized for losing a game or competition.

In the European Union, the treatment of VoIP service providers is a decision for each Member State's national telecoms regulator, which must use competition law to define relevant national markets and then determine whether any service provider on those national markets has " significant market power " ( and so should be subject to certain obligations ).

Typically, the winner of Copa del Rey goes to the UEFA Europa League ; should one of the finalists have already qualified for European competition then the other finalist goes into the Europa League.

Medb insisted " y the truth of your Roí's valour " ( r fír do gascid fritt ) that he should abandon the competition, obstructive as it proved to be to the progress of the expedition.

While Special Awards and Citations continue to be an important option, the Pulitzer Board believes that the Music Prize, in its own annual competition, should encompass the nation's array of distinguished music and hopes that the refinements in the Prize's definition, guidelines and jury membership will serve that end .”

Efficiency-oriented economists reject the goal of competition and instead argue that antitrust legislation should be changed to primarily benefit consumers.

In 1982 the Reagan administration used the Sherman Act to break up AT & T into one long-distance company and seven regional " Baby Bells ", arguing that competition should replace monopoly for the benefit of consumers and the economy as a whole.

At this stage, the competition authorities stressed that it should not be assumed that the parties involved have broken the law.

Perceived ergogenic aids can increase endurance, speed and weight-lifting ability, leading to the question of whether placebos should be allowed in sport competition.

Although Gropius maintained that the Bauhaus should remain politically neutral, he ultimately agreed to participate in the competition staged among Weimar artists at the end of 1920.

As long as there were two human beings working together on the same project, there would be competition and you could no more escape it than you could expect to escape the grave.

No corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital of another corporation engaged also in commerce, where the effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the acquisition, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce.

With the growing complexity of markets and intensity of competition, sales management, whether at the district, region or headquarters level, is a tough job today -- and it will be tougher in the future.

Because of its importance, and because the lack of price competition is well recognized, the industry is under considerable public pressure not to raise its price any more than could be justified by cost increases.

The entry-limiting price will also be raised for potential domestic competition, but unless general inflation permits profit margins to increase proportionately throughout the economy, we might expect the public-limit price to approach the entry-limit price.

Peterson said America has nothing to fear in world competition if it dares to be original in both marketing and product ideas.

Direct reciprocity and cooperation in a group can be increased by changing the focus and incentives from intra-group competition to larger scale competitions such as between groups or against the general population.

On July 23, 1894, the Parisian magazine Le Petit Journal organized what is considered to be the world's first motoring competition from Paris to Rouen.

In 1926, the Aga Khan gave a cup ( the Aga Khan Trophy ) to be awarded to the winners of an international team show jumping competition held at the annual horse show of the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland every first week in August.

Spencer wrote that in production the advantages of the superior individual is comparatively minor, and thus acceptable, yet the benefit that dominance provides those who control a large segment of production might be hazardous to competition.

Each year, hundreds of Collegiate a cappella groups submit their strongest songs in a competition to be on The Best of College A Cappella ( BOCA ), an album compilation of tracks from the best college a cappella groups around the world.

Organized sports competition on Sundays was illegal in Pennsylvania until 1931, when challenged by the Philadelphia A's, the laws were changed permitting only baseball to be played on Sundays.

In some competitions, boards are pre-dealt prior to the competition, especially if the same hands are to be played at many locations ( for example in a large national or international tournament ).

The newspaper was asked to organize a competition, after which each of the successful participants was contacted and asked whether they would be prepared to undertake " a particular type of work as a contribution to the war effort ".

In 1968, he captained the Manchester United team that won the European Cup, scoring two goals in the final to help his team be the first English side to win the competition.

As well as singles competition, there can be two ( pairs ), three ( triples ) and four-player ( fours ) teams.

Particularly in team competition there can be a large number of bowls on the green towards the conclusion of the end, and this gives rise to complex tactics.

A downside, however, would be an increase in aerobic bacteria growth due to the introduction of biomass, leading to more competition for oxygen resources in the deep sea, similar to the oxygen minimum zone.

In February 2002, the International Olympic Committee retroactively decided that the curling competition from the 1924 Winter Olympics ( originally called Semaine des Sports d ' Hiver, or International Winter Sports Week ) would be considered official Olympic events and no longer be considered demonstration events.

The competition aspect of cheerleading can be very enduring ; styles and rules changing every year make it important and difficult to find the newest and hottest routines.

The USASF was formed in 2003 by the competition companies to act as the national governing body for all star cheerleading and to create a standard set of rules and judging standards to be followed by all competitions sanctioned by the Federation, ultimately leading to the Cheerleading Worlds.

The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis ( such as the Salem witch trials, which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians and French and other European settlers ) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition ( such as the American Renaissance of the late 18th-and early 19th-century literary, visual, and architectural movements, which sought to capitalize on unique American identities ).

One reason was that higher status families were traditionally expected to be polyandrous to maintain wealth of the family ( one woman would marry and mate with many brothers in the same family ; this led to sexual competition within the family, severe tension, jealousy and conflicts ).

Another potential source of competition in the future will be TV over broadband internet connections ; this is known as Internet Protocol television ( IPTV ).