It would set up direct competition between the traditional Medicare program and private health plans in 2010.

And I never regarded myself as being in direct competition with him.

"The next two weeks, we play against teams we're in direct competition with," he said.

"They're trying to look outside of their direct competition in creative ways."

Especially if we opened another firm in direct competition with him.

How much more may we be biased against direct competition?

This is just the latest round of direct competition with other huge food companies.

You know who her direct competition will be, of course.

Athletes don't get to this level without learning to deal with direct competition.

Given time and experience you might want to go into direct competition with the big boys on their own channel.