Word: cut-throat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...early years of unbridled expansion and cut-throat competition gave way in the late eighties to public control. Since that time concession after concession has been demanded of the railroads until just before our entrance in the war they were scarcely able to make both ends meet. Rates had become so low and restrictions so stringent that all improvements or new investments were impossible. The point had been reached where private industry and even a fair transportation efficiency were incompatible...
...enormous death rate among miners was attributed to two principal causes by Mr. Holmes. As long as the several companies and states continue their cut-throat competition, they cannot make profits enough to provide adequate safety devices. A sociological reason for the loss of life is the supplanting of the old generation of native-born miners by foreigners, at least half of whom have no understanding of the American language and customs. The high-class American miners are going into other professions, and the scholars of the country must find a means of bringing the new foreign operators into sympathy...
...CRIMSON endorses most heartily the action of the Student Council Committee on Publications in recommending the merger of the Advocate and Monthly, and will do all in its power to further such a movement. For obvious reasons it is desirable to put an end to the present cut-throat competition for advertising and circulation that is now carried on by the two papers, and to have a single publication that truly represents the literary ability of the undergraduates. By the present competition of the two papers in the same limited field the University loses the benefit and influence that could...
...Seniors argued that while trusts in their present condition are attended with undeniable evils, still the system as a whole is better than that of cut-throat competition from which it stated the trust had sprung through a natural growth. The Seniors submitted that the trust should be considered not only as it exists today but also from the standpoint of the ultimate condition which in the course of natural evolution it will attain. The Juniors objected to this interpretation, arguing that the consideration of the question should embrace only the trust as an actual condition of the present...