Sentences with phrase «tougher economic competition»
According to the Bloomberg report, fully 7 percent of U.S. coal energy generation is expected to shut down in 2015, spurred by the onset of a key mercury emissions rule and also by tougher economic competition from other energy sources.
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In a speech to the Centre for Economic Development in Australia (CEDA), ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims, will speak about the ACCC's focus on «competition and consumer issues arising in highly concentrated sectors, and in particular the supermarkets and fuel sectors»: see Lucy Battersby, «Watchdog gets tough on retail» (The Age, 21 February 2013).
Researchers suggested that the economic climate could be the reason for the sense of seriousness and the need to do well at school; teenagers in 2005 had grown up in a time of sustained economic growth - while those in 2014 were aware of the tough competition for jobs and the difficulty in affording somewhere to live.
If there is one good thing that the economic recession has brought to the U.S., its tougher competition.