Word: cutthroat
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...street, at least, one's guard is up. Muggers who demand money are, in a sense, just conducting a cutthroat business. Most of the time they do not lay claims on their victims' humanity. Home is meant to be life's one warm, safe place. Violence committed there, especially by somebody understood to be a guardian (husband, father, mother, uncle, babysitter), is a special betrayal. And once brawling becomes routine in a household, or primal taboos are cracked, there is often no stopping the spread of viciousness. Richard Gelles, a sociologist at the University of Rhode Island, describes the grim...
Contrary to the legend of cutthroat competition among be future doctors. "pre-meds" take care of each other very nicely," said Currier House pre-med advisor Shah Khoshbin...
...Sovietologist and professor of economics at Wellesley College, the Soviets began moving aggressively to increase their world market share as far back as 1981, months before sinking spot prices began to herald the end of the $34 OPEC bench mark. "By late 1981," says Goldman, "the Soviets were becoming cutthroat price cutters." Most of the cutting was done quietly; officially prices stayed in line with those of OPEC...
...every major firm has been hurt, and the common estimate is that a 20- to 30- percent excess capacity presently exists. These are hard times for truckers, and Reagan's advice concerning "passing on the tax to the customer" has a decidedly hollow ring in the face of the cutthroat competition engendered by the present situation. It is hardly a surprise that the independent truckers chose to strike or that the ATA and the Teamsters were less than effusive in supporting them. From the trucking establishment's point of view, it wouldn't be all that...
...because the excess U.S. tobacco was of poor quality and at best crudely refined, and because foreign smokers too were lighting up less frequently, the U.S. companies found their cigarettes couldn't compete in the cutthroat European and Japanese markets. Anywhere in the developed world, the problems were the same. As Robert Wagman of the North American Newspaper Alliance explained. "The tobacco companies . . . need consumers who will consume high tar tobacco in blissful ignorance of the danger it poses to their health...