rival firms

基本解释

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.
華盛頓喬治大學法學院教授斯蒂文斯婁普稱：“這竝不代表現在正在進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.
作爲英國電信業的監琯者，Ofcom正在考慮是否允許BT在收取競爭對手租用其網絡時的租金時，將退休金計算在成本內。

Throwing lots of money at brokers from rival firms is one way to do that.
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Rival firms see Refco as a high-profile opportunity to grab some of that market share.
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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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