Word: cut-throat
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Batra says that in California, which led the nation in number of applicants, the key to winning was friendliness and a sense of humor. "People with the cut-throat attitude didn't make it through," said the history of science concentrator...
...drivers from speeding across the border to buy lower-taxed German models. Lufthansa, Iberia and Air France have slashed airfares, signaling the opening of Europe's first air price war. Consumers are benefiting. But Bernard Attali, chairman of the board of Air France, warned that the "suicidal" consequences of cut-throat competition will be massive layoffs and fewer flights to small cities...
During Bunker's yoga classes in this same room, however, pressure is not the name of the game. In fact, the approximately 25 people enrolled in the 12 noon class are there specifically to avoid the cut-throat competition of the University. They simply want to relax...
...culprit, obviously a novice cut-throat, later avenged his foiled plan by blasting the television in the next room so I could not hear my own tape...
...find a lot of competitiveness among Harvard students--and not just among the ones who have their sciencefair award-winning volcanoes on display in their common rooms. Often the cut-throat impulse hides, lurking just below the surface, ready to spew forth when you casually suggest a friendly game of Computer Risk, or even worse, when you begin playing...