Tony is a fast runner.

Tom is a good runner.

I am the fastest runner.

Tom is the best runner.

The runner had reached the halfway mark.

The runner is running on the track.

He is the fastest runner in our class.

The results of this competitive solidarity are huge.

One Europe with a competitive and resource efficient economy.

The importance of a competitive currency for economic growth is undeniable.

The fastest runner can't run 100 meters in 9 seconds.

Even the fastest runner in the world cannot run if he is hungry.

Commercial banks found it advantageous to accumulate weaker countries bonds to earn a few extra basis points, which caused interest rates to converge across the eurozone.

Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, undertook structural reforms and became more competitive.

Ukraine s powerful industrialists praised the NBU s low exchange rate policy, believing it makes the country more competitive.

Development The cost of developing a competitive commercial MMORPG title often exceeded 10 million by 2003.

Is it competitive enough to prevent discredited leaders from clinging to power?

With the currency at a level that makes Argentina competitive again, reconstruction can begin.

Japan s high tech industries remain competitive, and the country is still the world s second largest exporter.

We cannot continue to commit ourselves to delivering a more competitive Europe while denying ourselves the means to achieve it.

The Davignon Plan imposed Europe wide production and price controls, monitored and coordinated national governments state aids, organized the closures of outdated plants, encouraged mergers, and awarded EU funding to retraining schemes for redundant steel workers. Its overall aim was to make the backbone of Europe s heavy engineering sector more competitive internationally.

It is crucial to ensure that our European model, with its emphasis on a fair deal for everyone, remains competitive.

Its overall aim was to make the backbone of Europe s heavy engineering sector more competitive internationally.

Two years ago, Eritrea's flag bearing medium distance runner Weynay Ghebresilasie defected during the Olympic Games in London.

A new Franco German axis that makes France more competitive is just what Europe needs.

Extreme runner Ray Zahab shares an enthusiastic account of his record breaking trek on foot to the South Pole a 33 day sprint through the snow.

But if Europe s economy is to become more competitive and innovative, it is not enough that women enter the labor market in droves.

Reforms are needed if Europe really wants to become a competitive, knowledge based economy, and not merely the most regulated one.

A new Franco German axis that makes France more competitive is just what Europe needs.

In fact, empirical evidence shows that in many cases, further reducing carbon dioxide emissions might help to make industries more competitive.

So if humans evolved as runners, if that's our one natural advantage, why are we so bad at it? Why do we keep getting hurt?

Rather, she simply understands that for an economy that needs to stay competitive, bad mouthing the euro and the ECB sends the wrong signals.

All this, ultimately, enables companies to make their production more competitive and maintain their business even in an unstable economic situation.

Some of the ghosts of the 1930 s have returned, too in particular, the fear of unfair trade advantages caused by competitive devaluation.

Maintaining a competitive currency requires a rise in domestic saving relative to investment, or a reduction in national expenditure relative to income.

Europeans would do better to look for a more competitive and dynamic economy so that the exchange rate becomes a less desperate battle.

We are told that in a knowledge economy, a country needs ever more graduates and formal qualifications to stay competitive. But education simply does not deliver economic growth the way our politicians and businessmen believe more education in does not mean more growth out.

But, as we now know, Germany did become competitive again too competitive, according to some, owing to a combination of wage restraint and productivity enhancing structural reforms.

We are told that in a knowledge economy, a country needs ever more graduates and formal qualifications to stay competitive.

If a government sprang from reasonably fair elections and the elected government is able to fill the most important political offices, the country is deemed electorally competitive.

Of course, regaining the exchange rate as an instrument for competitive devaluation could help overcome competitiveness losses due to soaring unit labor costs.

After a jogger was scratched and bitten by a pack of stray dogs on December 14, 2011, at a new park in Punggol in Singapore, the Agri Food Veterinary Authority (AVA) has stepped up efforts to round up the stray dogs around the area.

But it is not in America s interest to accentuate and extend its payment deficits at the expense of an internationally competitive economy with strong industry and restrained consumption.

The rest of Europe would become competitive and could grow its way out of its difficulties but Germany would find out how painful it can be to have an overvalued currency.

Remaining in a currency union with the much more competitive German economy will require wrenching and rapid reforms, for which Hollande s tepid approach will fail to prepare the complacent French.