The city's effort comes as the nation faces a chronic shortage of math, science and special education teachers that has sparked heavy competition to court such educators.

That has helped spark intense competition for any such hotel that comes up for sale.

Instead, a principal writes, they have sparked competition and confusion.

New Rivalries Among Advisers The boom in mergers and acquisitions is also sparking new competition for a piece of the pie.

In fact, Morgan didn't actually like innovators, because they sparked unsettling competition.

This sparked competition to make slimmer compact digital cameras, with other manufacturers bringing out lines of comparably thin cameras from 2004.

Critics fear it will spark damaging competition between schools.

Hard times sparked competition.

The considerable opening of the market sparked intense competition for programming and viewer share, which can be seen by the extensive use of advertising.

Many of the new arrivals have been girls, sparking competition among the boys at the mostly male school.