rival firms

基本解釋

At about 7 p.m., when The Wall Street Journal's Web site broke the news of the $2 price, people at rival firms were stunned.
大約晚上7點，華爾街日報的網(wǎng)站上披露了交易價格，貝爾斯登的對手們都被驚呆了。
That is not to say that the antitrust cases that are now under way are without merit, and have merely been stirred up by rival firms.
華盛頓喬治大學(xué)法學(xué)院教授斯蒂文斯婁普稱：“這并不代表現(xiàn)在正在進(jìn)行中的反壟斷案件不具任何價值，僅僅是被一些競爭公司所煽動。
Ofcom, Britain’s telecoms regulator, is considering whether to allow BT to include the cost of pensions when calculating the fees it charges rival firms to rent bits of its network.
作為英國電信業(yè)的監(jiān)管者，Ofcom正在考慮是否允許BT在收取競爭對手租用其網(wǎng)絡(luò)時的租金時，將退休金計算在成本內(nèi)。

Throwing lots of money at brokers from rival firms is one way to do that.
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Antitrust is institutionalized harassment, inherently anti-infrastructure since it makes large scale competitive reactions by rival firms unnecessary.
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