Word: cutthroat
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...sailboat man dreams at some time of cruising across the Pacific, running for days under warm breezes, dropping anchor for weeks at islands with names like Raratonga. Citybound mariners mostly learn to content themselves with a few weeks' cruising on inland waters or slashing around the markers in cutthroat weekend races. But young John Lipscomb, 18, and his father James, a writer and first-rate cinematographer (Blue Water, White Death), realized the total dream. James Lipscomb was able to sell the idea of a film about such a voyage. As a result, Son John became skipper...
...collapse came as no surprise to financial experts. The British travel industry has been plagued by undersecured operators, perilously narrow profit margins and cutthroat price competition. In the past five years, 44 firms have folded and many others are in trouble. Last week the collapse of the Tabberer Agency in Birmingham left 800 Britons stranded in Canada...
...This atmosphere of opportunistic expediency does not augur well for the medical profession," says Frederick Hofmann, head of admissions at Columbia's medical school. He is right. Cutthroat medical students could well make cutthroat physicians...
...breed of coin-operated games that use sophisticated electronic technology to simulate everything from playing table tennis to driving a race car. Besides giving birth to a nationwide fad, the games have also revived the sagging coin-game industry, boosting its revenues and ushering in a new era of cutthroat competition between manufacturers...
Since all pre-meds meet each other in head-to-head competition in those five courses, they can become real cutthroat experiences. Even after discounting stories of pre-meds sabotaging each other's labs, the degree of competition and amount of emotion involved in the courses is apalling...