Word: cutthroat
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...Diego, the figure is 132%. In Las Vegas, 117%. Miami, Washington, San Francisco--128%, 108%, 65%. Fortunes are being made, jealousies are being kindled and the claws are coming out--literally. In Manhattan, where the average apartment costs more than $1 million, the housing market is so cutthroat that a real estate agent attacked a seller--who had committed the sin of not hiring a broker--at his open house...
...yesterday, after the finish line came and went and three crews lay paralyzed at the finish line, exhausted after 2,000 cutthroat meters of bow ball-to-bow ball rowing, they waited again...
...Their tone at these meetings can be accusatory - if my child is struggling or misbehaving, it must be your fault. "The crux of the issue is that teachers are nice people," says Anne, a Sydney Year 1 teacher. "We're nurturers. We like children. We respond to courtesy, not cutthroat corporate behavior." Fionie Stavert, an organizer with the N.S.W. Teachers Federation, says she's cynical enough to believe that in certain parts of Sydney parental complaints about teachers peak during rainy spells - the mothers have missed out on their tennis so they gossip about teachers over coffee instead. Stavert credits...
...seems that such a strategy, however cutthroat, worked out for him in the end. Immediately after graduating with a degree in History and Literature, he went to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art on a Fulbright Scholarship. Then, after a few years of struggling for work in New York, he started to get some breaks. Three decades later, he has over 30 movies under his belt, four Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, two Academy Award nominations, and several starring roles on Broadway...
...guess government, like the natural sciences, is a cutthroat field where the rigors of collaboration and difficult problem sets are just too much for the feeble female mind to handle. And it makes perfect sense to me that the large introductory classes in the natural sciences are too impersonal for the weaker sex while the large introductory classes in psychology are just right...