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competitiveness

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  • noun an agressive willingness to compete.

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  • noun The state of being competitive.

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  • noun an aggressive willingness to compete

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Examples

  • The net change in American competitiveness is zero.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Persistence of Carbon Tax Advocates 2009

  • In fact, said Philip Whyte of the Centre for European Reform, "the word competitiveness seems to have become a substitute for that of imbalance."

    Worries Abound That Fixes for Crisis Will Underdeliver Stephen Fidler 2011

  • Rather than deal with this dangerous lack of faith, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy are concentrating on what they term a competitiveness pact, but which is essentially a budgetary straitjacket that governments on the periphery of the eurozone are to be strapped into.

    Eurozone crisis: The pain in Spain | Editorial 2011

  • Politics Obama used his State of the Union address to urge the nation to meet the challenges of a global economy, framing what he called a competitiveness agenda.

    Arab Outcry, Big Speech, Investing Coup 2011

  • WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama used his State of the Union address Tuesday to ask the nation to meet the challenges of a global economy, framing what he called a competitiveness agenda that includes traditional Democr atic proposals like increased education spending, alongside gestures to Republicans seeking deep budget cuts.

    Obama: U.S. Must Compete Jonathan Weisman 2011

  • Paul, who entered the draft after his sophomore season at Wake Forest, says his competitiveness is the result of growing up competing against his brother C.J., who played at the University of South Carolina-Upstate.

    USATODAY.com - Small Paul expected to be big force at point guard 2005

  • LEMONICK: Well the president in the State of the Union message proposed what he called the competitiveness initiative.

    CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2006 2006

  • That anxiety is one of the key reasons the president launched in his State of the Union what he calls his competitiveness agenda, a series of modest proposals designed to keep America the economic leader.

    CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2006 2006

  • And the president is basically continuing to promote what he calls his competitiveness initiative, which he outlined during his State of the Union Address.

    CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2006 2006

  • That anxiety is one of the key reasons the president launched in his State of the Union what he calls his competitiveness agenda, a series of modest proposals designed to keep America the economic leader, and it's also aimed at the psyche of worried Americans.

    CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2006 2006

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