Word: cut-throat
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...lean years of the 1930's and 1940's there were good reasons for training law graduates to be the best possible legal technicians to enable them to meet the cut-throat competition for the few positions available. These days, getting a job is somewhat easier, and firms must compete harder to get the law graduates they want...
About 200 College Entrance Examination Board member schools are expected to use the earlier notification date next year. It is hoped the change will end the cut-throat competition practices of some colleges, which currently require their candidates to accept or reject admission before the Ivy schools have mailed admission certificates...
Addressing the opening meeting of the Yacht Club recently, an Olympic Gold Medal winner discussed the cut-throat competition in Naples, reminisced about his college racing, and issued a proposal on behalf of certain alumni who wish to encourage sailing at Harvard...
...establishing such an arrangement, the HDC would help itself as well as the smaller organizations, and would help curtail the cut-throat competition that is now developing out of this polarization of productions...
...competition is not cut-throat in that those trying out for the paper do not compete against each other, but try to prove their journalistic ability or business acument against CRIMSON standards...