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.
大约晚上7点，华尔街日报的网站上披露了交易价格，贝尔斯登的对手们都被惊呆了。
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.
华盛顿乔治大学法学院教授斯蒂文斯娄普称：“这并不代表现在正在进行中的反垄断案件不具任何价值，仅仅是被一些竞争公司所煽动。
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.
作为英国电信业的监管者，Ofcom正在考虑是否允许BT在收取竞争对手租用其网络时的租金时，将退休金计算在成本内。

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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