Word: cutthroat
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...panelists discussed the organization's efforts to deal with issues ranging from AIDS research to the cutthroat Senate race in North Carolina. ACT-UP's loose-knit organization claims operating centers in six major U.S. cities including Boston, and several foreign countries...
This is not to say that you will not come across some genuinely nice people in your time here. Undoubtedly, you will. Your friends here will be as congenial as they are cutthroat. Get used...
...concessions under which Western oil companies had pumped oil on their territory. The national oil companies, which controlled 75% of the world's crude output, insisted on higher prices that cut into the profit margins of Western companies. The once cozy world of Big Oil quickly became a cutthroat competition in which the lack of a guaranteed supply of crude oil could mean the end of a once dominant firm...
...twenty-seven or so, a professional cook, with broad shoulders, a mustache, and a good eye for pool. Every Christmas for the last few years, we meet and play at Rotten Rodney's on Lake Street in Madison, Wisconsin. This year my father joined us and we played cutthroat for a couple hours. My dad went to Harvard, before becoming dean of a string of law schools, Chris paid his own way through school, after doing time on the oil rigs in Montana, and I'm a smart-ass undergraduate, so we had interesting conversation. After Dad went home, Chris...
...recreational rivalry which Mandery loves so much did not prepare him for the cutthroat competition which sometimes dominates Harvard activities. In his dealings with the council and with the student body, Mandery consistently had problems accepting criticism--particularly from political rivals. That fact sometimes led him into political difficulties on the council and personal frustration...